YouTube for some time spam problem. This is not the case for small and medium-sized channels, but the larger ones, where each video can add up to thousands of responses, have seen a clear increase in this type of publication in recent months, trying to trick other users into getting into the traps mentioned in their publications.

The creators of YouTube realized this problem and subsequently they began publishing videos that clearly revealed this problemand wonders if YouTube plans to act in any way and improve its comment filtering system. And manual checking brings two big problems. The first is how long malicious posts can remain until they are detected. And the second is that after a certain number of comments, this type of moderation is unavailable.

At this point, of course, I remember again that we are talking about big accounts. To give just one example, Saoko, the video for the song that opens Rosalia’s new album, added more than 33 million views to YouTube at the time of writing, and an incredible 32,475 comments. But the fact is that a video released by Jaime Altozano yesterday analyzing the disc has already collected more than 6,200 comments in just 24 hours. This is what I mean when I say that manual control is unavailable in many cases.

And here it is important to clarify that the main concern of YouTube content creators it’s the safety of the people watching your videos, your audience. To address this, they focus on the number of spam accounts that resort to phishing, pretend to be the authors of the video or have a relationship with it, a trap that some users can get into, and who will sooner or later end up clicking on malicious links.

Fortunately, Google appears to have acknowledged receipt and according to Marques BrownleeYouTuber, who is affected by this issue, YouTube is already testing a new comment filtering systemwhich we can deduce from its description, reduces the degree of laxity with which potentially harmful comments are analyzed.

The fact that this feature, which is still in testing, has also reached exactly at least one of the youtubers who condemned the situation, seems to be a clear sign that videos critical of it have reached the YouTube offices out loud and clear. Now, of course You will need to see if it works the way you want it toor when spammers They are able to bypass this new level of filtering and spam continues to roam the comments on YouTube. Let’s hope not.