Spam on YouTube

If you have your own YouTube account, and have uploaded your own videos, then chances are you've received spam in the comments sections of some of your videos.

I've gotten quite a few of them in my videos, and initially I thought just clicking on the "spam" link for the comment would be enough.

It isn't. For some of the comments you mark as spam, YouTube might "hide" the comment, while for others, it won't. The majority of the ones I clicked on did not become hidden.

I also thought that clicking on that link would make them more active in checking them. It doesn't. So I tried to contact them in a more direct way, through the "contact" link at the bottom of each YouTube page. I expected to see a form to send my comments, but I was not persistent enough to get to the correct form six links in.

So anyway, here's how you can report those users. Not that it'll help that much, though, since they already have multiple accounts from which they send out their spam, and I assume they'll just sign up for even more, once YouTube deactivates their accounts. YouTube really needs to set up a better system in dealing with spam.