[devjab]

I had my YouTube account banned because I changed the channel name into something that trigged their AI. Maybe it was that I’ve never uploaded a video or written a comment? Who knows. Anyway I was fully expecting to have lost my account (and my playlists) forever based on the bad reputation Google has, but when I clicked the “do you disagree with this” appeal thing it took very little time to have my account restored.

This is very anecdotal, and Google’s automated process is probably as horrible as it’s generally made out to be. It was just so surprising to me that it wasn’t, that I thought I would share it.

[zahlman]

YouTube refused to let me create an account (after some trial and error) with the word "angry" in the channel name.

[junon]

I have "angry" in my channel name, anecdotally. So it could have been something else.

[zahlman]

All I know is that when I took that word out it let me create the account. This was somewhere around the same time as your account creation. It might be more complicated than that, but I'm not about to try and reverse-engineer it.

[junon]

Oh I believe you, was more commenting on the uncertainty of all of it.

[smcin]

Depends, what date did you create that channel, they may have changed rules since.

[rlayton2]

The problem is the rules aren't specified, if you fall afoul of a rule you do not get told which rule it is, and the rules are AI-based decisions that are hard to even understand. If the process was transparent, it would be a lot easier to deal with.

[smcin]

I understood that, and I was trying to help reverse-engineer what might have changed.

[junon]

Probably two years ago or so.

[BlueTemplar]

Comment moderation is also a shitshow, my comments routinely get silently deleted (or worse: shadowbanned).

And the most ridiculous in this, is how they get deleted/banned a LOT more if you use YouTube's own syntax for time-links ! (Maybe the automatic moderation system thinks these are external links or something?!?)