[deadfece]

This problem is very ubiquitous - not just against YT but also on social media sites like Facebook.

I have given up reporting these. The social media companies usually employ some automated method, whereupon reviewing the post, said automation determines it's just fine.

I also went all the way to finding some prolific scammers in Canada, handing over their details to the FBI and state police... but two years later, their domains are still active in scam campaigns.

The big thing I think I would do in this situation is to find whoever is handling this problem the best and direct that community discussion over there, disabling comments on the video platform. If the video platform is unable to address the scammer bots issue, then that community traffic can just go somewhere else.

I don't know enough about the community discussion platforms/forums to say who's the best, but I've not seen this level of spam on self-hosted forums or even reddit.

This is definitely not the future I had anticipated as a kid on dialup internet in the 90s.

[lakomen]

Meta does this, saying it's "just fine". Especially Instagram. I reported an account posting hardcore porn videos and they were like "lol thanks, we don't have time for this, it's fine". Then I wrote the word "tits" in a comment of some redhead's picture and the comment and removed because it was "harassment". Say what? I escalated the issue and a month later they were like "the committee didn't pick your case".

The amount of scammers I get in my private messages on Instagram is also insane. How clumsy they act. Method A: Take a random picture that you commented on a longer while ago. Say they're them and that you, the fan, has been chosen for special treatment. Yada Yada, they want to send you a picture of them but sigh coincidence has it that it requires an iTunes gift card to work. Fucking really? The profile picture is that of a blonde but all of the profile's friends are black including the women. Method B: A more popular porn actress had an Instagram account, you comment on that account, any comment. They copy pictures of that account, use AI to generate similar pictures of that person. Again you're addressed as "the fan". You get the rest. Those accounts have over 200k followers each. Maybe they're also part of that person's network monetization strategy. I know a guy who worked in SMS sex chat, pretending to be a woman and sexing male chatters up. Something like this may be happening here.

The internet, especially social networks, remain a dangerous place.

Sometimes I want to go along with it just to see where it ends and what they do to make it work, but then again who has the time for that?