Youtube blocking / deleting comments with the word 'Ferrite'. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2022, 09:52:47 pm
content: I recently tried to leave a comment, but it kept on getting erased after around 30 seconds. I was wondering why.After teething out the possibilities, it came down to having the word Ferrite or Ferite.It was a comment on a recommendation for using Ferrite Core Memory for a digital vacuum tube project.What in the world could Youtube be interpreting 'Ferrite' as to instantly auto delete comment?Does a dictionary of don't say on Youtube words exist? (I mean other than swearing...)How am I supposed to know what I said wrong if my comments get erased?

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2022, 09:59:57 pm
content: QuoteKind of tricky, that one. On the one side, knowing what's triggered the filter will allow you to rephrase stuff but, on the other side, knowing what triggered the filter will allow yourephrase stuffwork around it.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2022, 10:02:50 pm
content: The Urban Dictionary website has a definition for “ferriter” that is horribly obscene, but nothing to do with memory devices. Other similar slang definitions there for “ferrit”, but none for “ferrite”.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2022, 10:34:17 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on May 23, 2022, 10:02:50 pmSome Irish people are going to be sad,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferriter

author: BrokenYugo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2022, 11:21:45 pm
content: I can top that. Had a filter in a Call of Duty game (where it is common to get called every slur under the sun on voice chat, fitting or not) naming a loadout of all things, something only I can see anyway, that rejected "general purpose". Paring it down it turned out it didn't like "ralp". I probably put half an hour of research into that one and came up empty.I have to assume these naughty words lists are not man made.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 24, 2022, 03:42:44 am
content: I tried it using my other account and the comment is still there an hour later.See the comment on my video:

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2022, 05:33:49 am
content: My comment was to consider Ferrite core memory and to search on ebay for some modules which were 1k by 2 bit. Changing my message to Magnetic core memory made it pass the sensors.This was the video:Perhaps the word combination of Ferrite-core did me in, or something in combination about the above video.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2022, 01:45:38 pm
content: It's training to get you used to avoiding some arbitrary words, redacting them from your messages and not making a big deal of it.The second phase will be gradual migration off of problematic words towards those that can only be used to express love and peace.Thus the Internet will at last become free of misinformation and hate.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2022, 01:47:58 pm
content: And bipolar transistors shall be banned, along with improper fractions.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2022, 02:18:09 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on May 25, 2022, 01:47:58 pm

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2022, 03:35:18 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on May 25, 2022, 01:47:58 pmNope, they should be offered professional help.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2022, 03:43:07 pm
content: Real men don't try to change semiconductors, they accept them for what they are.Just like with changing light bulbs.

author: DavidAlfa
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2022, 07:12:45 pm
content: Ahh YouTube must be driven by wokes nowadays, so pathetic.So I just found a new way to drink a beer while also warming it.I also had some comments removed several times, but never knew if it was the filter or the video publisher.I've removed some, there's always a bored idiot that comes to troll or say something awkard.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2022, 07:32:05 pm
content: It's not that "it must be"... it literally is. Heck, how much more woke can removing the dislike counter be?Yeah YT filtering has gotten pretty uh, drastic.

author: DavidAlfa
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2022, 11:06:52 pm
content: I think the dislike was a money thing, Google doesn't care about the video quality or accuracy, just wants the money!If you see 1M dislikes... Hell, I'm not seeing this!... Hurts google income.Without it, videos like "free Energy", "you won't believe", "watch until the end"... skyrocket. Google is happier now.Yes, money rules over content quality or even scams.Onthe phone I use Vanced YT, but Google stepped on them few months ago, so has little life left.For the TV I use SmartYoutube.Both are great, no ads, skips sponsor/crap/unrelevant sections, and have dislikes.There's also a Chrome addon to restore dislikes.Screw you, wokes! Now also they're trying normalize fat people by banning the "fat" word.So much wasted efforts, instead educating people to have healthy habits, now all they need do is keep arguing on Tweeter while eating their daily cube of KFC on the bed.The future will be full of weirdos.Luckly there're a lot of big animals to use as synonymAnd I must say I have nothing against fat people, it's this stupid actitude!

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2022, 08:25:19 am
content: I don't know why comments get removed, or by whom. Most of the time I believe it's automated, sometimes it can be manual: either the person who posted the video, or a Google moderator. YouTube has gone full woketard. It happened around 2020, around the COVID-19 panic and the BLM riots. Now is so bad, even commenting on the weather can get removed because the AI thinks you're posting misinformation about climate change. It's no longer a platform where anything can be openly discussed.I think I preferred it when people would make homophobic and racist comments to videos from said minorities. I found it to be most common on pop music videos, posted by someone other than the group. It was offensive, but I could ignore it, or post a reply calling them a homophobic, or racist twat, if I was bored or in a bad mood.

author: strawberry
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2022, 01:35:16 pm
content: could be some system errorwas unable to post on Youtube , reduced to generic sentence but still didnt work (I remember), thought I was banned

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2022, 02:45:16 pm
content: Early last year on occasion I had some comments from different videos and I could not find out any information about the reasons given just disappears..Quote from: DavidAlfa on May 26, 2022, 11:06:52 pmhttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/i-think-i-found-a-new-one/This video still live and doing well with views:youtube.com/watch?v=9FsQZXV2uP422 Positive.With the Dislike browser extension that 22 positive is now -115 positive.I reported it to Youtube, the BBC for their background tine and the owner of that picture they greenscreened.Instead I found my comment removed checking back the next year and they seem to clean out the comments every now and again.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2022, 05:28:22 pm
content: Quote from: Zero999 on May 27, 2022, 08:25:19 amYep. And yes, most of the removals are automated now. It's obvious when you post something and it gets removed within 30s or so, especially when the video has already hundreds of comments, some of which look actually offensive and much worse than yours, and the owner of the channel can't possibly have moderated all that themselves in such a short time while leaving many offensive comments alone. That doesn't make sense from a human perspective.I already mentioned a while ago one almost 100% sure way of getting one's comment removed: including a link. I remember there was a discussion about this. The problem with that type of "censorship" is that you thus just can't provide a source to what you're saying, if it needs one. Or, if you wanna do this, don't include a direct link. I guess you can fool the algorithm by "obfuscating" the links in some way.Generally speaking, many people now use "obfuscating" for mentioning certain terms that are automatically banned on YT. Like splitting one word in two, slightly changing the spelling, etc. It does "work". This is what you get when automated mass surveillance is on. No doubt AI "experts" are working hard at making language recognition smarter so that it can spot this kind of obfuscation.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2022, 06:32:38 pm
content: Quote from: Zero999 on May 27, 2022, 08:25:19 amI agree. You can also set up words that autodelete comments for your own channel.Which is kinda necessary since spambots are out of control. The new trend is that they put in their own name the contact info (like phone number) of some scammer, and write some legit looking comment.And also, when they leave a thread with 15 comments in them, with stuff like this: "contact this guy, he can recover your bitcoin" " Yes he helped me" "This is his instagram account: "

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2022, 09:15:35 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 27, 2022, 05:28:22 pmSome comments, post but are hidden.Quite often it appears you've managed to post, but it never got through. It's obvious because it disappears if you refresh the page and trying to edit it gives an error, when you try to save the changes.If I have a lot to say, I post several short comments, rather than a long one and I make a backup of each, so I the whole lot doesn't go.I believe the AI is trained by human moderators. It looks for patterns in the comments deleted by a human and automatically removes similar posts. Substituting Latin letters for homoglyphs used to easily trick the AI, but many of those comments were manually removed by a moderator, so it quickly learned it. I remember getting away with posting Νіggеr Ыасᴋ сооnѕ gаѕ јеѡѕ in response to a video discussing censorship which wasn't removed and got lots of likes.Quote from: tszaboo on May 27, 2022, 06:32:38 pmWhat really pisses me off is some blatant porn spam manages to get through, yet many of my seemingly inoffensive comments get blocked. It's really frustrating.