{"id":152880,"date":"2022-12-14T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=152880"},"modified":"2022-12-14T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:55:43","slug":"youtube-will-ban-users-for-a-day-for-repeated-toxic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/youtube-will-ban-users-for-a-day-for-repeated-toxic-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube will ban users for a day for repeated toxic comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The YouTube service team has made changes to the rules that relate to violations of the community guidelines.\u00a0We are talking about spam and toxic comments that incite hatred.\u00a0If earlier developers used pop-up notifications to deal with them, where it was said about the need to respect users and authors, now they are forced to resort to more serious methods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/192701791?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Under the new rules<\/a>\u00a0, if YouTube&#8217;s automated system detects an offensive comment, it will remove it and notify the user that they have violated the community guidelines.\u00a0If the same user continues to post toxic comments, they will be banned and will not be able to post comments for 24 hours.\u00a0At the same time, users have the opportunity to contact YouTube support if they believe that their comment was deleted in error.\u00a0The company noted that they had already successfully tested this feature before launch &#8211; notifications and blocking violators proved to be very effective.\u00a0This reduces the likelihood of users leaving an offensive comment again.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, toxic comment detection is only available for English-speaking YouTube audiences.\u00a0In the future, the system will work for other languages.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube comments are notoriously toxic and are a headache for Google.\u00a0In addition, the site is full of bots.\u00a0To address this issue, YouTube is constantly improving its automated systems and machine learning models to detect and remove spam.\u00a0The company said it removed more than 1.1 billion such comments in the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YouTube service team has made changes to the rules that relate to violations of the community guidelines.\u00a0We are talking about spam and toxic comments that incite hatred.\u00a0If earlier developers used pop-up notifications to deal with them, where it was said about the need to respect users and authors, now they are forced to resort [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/youtube-will-ban-users-for-a-day-for-repeated-toxic-comments\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":152881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-152880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}