[TheAceOfHearts]

Post-Elon takeover the amount of bot spam I encounter has definitely decreased. I'm not sure the claim of Twitter moderation is accurate, since before the takeover the problem was still present.

The problem got so bad in YouTube Comments that eventually third-party tools [0] were developed to help purge spam.

I agree that if you had a team monitoring spam they could write rules to drastically reduce spam. It's always going to be a cat and mouse game, but if the cat side was more proactive it would definitely lead to a better experience.

[0] https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

[mschuster91]

Urgh, yes. YouTuber HeavyDSparks has had a long running scammer campaign against him with people naming themselves with unicode characters of numbers in circles and posting "Whatsapp me" replies to legit comments. That even someone like him with > 3M subscribers can't seem to get ahold of a YouTube CSR who can raise an issue with backend/anti-fraud developers to check for accounts using this pattern is mind-boggling and only speaks for the dysfunctionality of Google today.