Apr 26, 2025

Y’alls comments getting shadow banned and deleted too?

I’m rarely rude to people in comments and 99% of the time I won’t even say anything bad, cuss or really anything relatively negative. Yet YouTube feels the need to repeatedly delete comments I post for no reason.

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Saulo Mansur

7 days ago

This is an ongoing problem for some time, yet Youtube seem unable (or unwilling) to provide a solution. In summary, the default sort by "top comments" also filters most comments and replies out, but they all should be visible when sorting by newest. While this workaround may help in some cases, it could not be accepted as a solution because this toggle is applied to comments section as a whole, making it problematic for reading replies to a single comment (specially because there is no such option in notifications panel)

People blaming moderation and censorship are missing the point, and youtube's team is just bad on understanding users complaints. Most posts here about deleted comments are in fact caused by this poorly designed feature, which could be easily solved if the option to show all replies (as in sort by newest) was given for each comment and on notifications panel. So much effort put on needless AI features, while trivial UIX keeps being overlooked...

Last edited 7 days ago