Youtube Will Warn Comment Spammers Block Repeat Abusers
According to the company, these warnings and timeouts showed great potential during testing. They “reduce the likelihood of users leaving violative comments again”. At launch, this feature will only work for English comments. The company plans to add support for more languages in the coming months. Since it relies on machine-powered automated detection, YouTube notes that it may not always get things right. As such, users who receive such warnings can give feedback if they feel the machine got it wrong....