fix your shit, youtube

Okay, seriously, how hard is it to stop people from spamming my Noobtoob videos on Youtube?

Every single day, I'm wasting my time deleting literally 20-30 comments on our Noobtoob videos that are spamming sites giving away "free shit". Oh, and I'm marking them all as spam, which you'd think would trigger their spam machinery to realize that hundreds of people have marked the SAME TEXT as spam for a MONTH.

Now, if this was a clever, constantly evolving, brilliant pirate attack, that'd be one thing.

But these guys are making thousands of accounts, and literally cutting and pasting the same fucking string into every post. And this has been happening for about a month. WITH THE SAME TEXT.

Youtube got bought by google, theoretically there's some really smart people working there.

Let me give you some advice. Grep the incoming comments for this text:

"I'm getting my copy of Halo 3 for free at halo3.wantsDOTit(replace DOT with .) I also get a free xbox 360 elite system. "

And then delete all those comments, and ban those user accounts, and the IP addresses they came from.

Better yet, extend this to a more generic algorithm of "Anyone who cuts and pastes the same text into 100 comments on videos is a spammer." Also, really not that hard. You can make a simple hash for each user's last X posts, and then compare the hashes when they post.

It's getting really goddamn annoying, especially considering the simplicity of the possible solutions. Stop swimming in your pools full of gold coins and fix it.