Why do the comment counts almost never match the actual number of comments? I know the answer is censorship but why doesn’t YouTube shadow-ban the comment count when they shadow-ban comments?
Honestly i don’t know what type of comment moderation they are doing but it’s pretty horrible. I constantly see obvious spam links or scammers as first level nested comments, often pretending to be the video author doing “giveaways” or trying to siphon off information. It’s incredibly widespread and has been happening for months at least.
Ok that’s an example of seeing spam comments, I’m asking about the comments you CAN’T see. For example the link says 3 replies but when you click it there is only 2 comments listed. Is there a technical reason why the reply count is not updated when comments are removed?