I’m having my comments I made the past few days receive zero engagements. It’s not just me losing the early bird lottery too; my replies to a highly engaged comment has zero likes, while several comments immediately after me has double digits. It’s nothing incendiary at all, just normal people’s comments. But something just tripped the enigmatic AI and thenceforth I’m shadow banned.
Why you should know this?
Because YouTube is being a thought police between creators and their communities. It feels to me like 99.999% of creators on YouTube have no idea that this is happening, that honest to goodness people’s engagements are never going to reach them on the platform; they’re being silently silenced, by an AI that is figuratively a black box.
Look at this screenshot. If that’s not damning evidence you tell me what is.
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The comment is straight up gone when viewing with a logged out tab. I’m definitely 100% shadow banned right now.
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It’s an age old system that was called “cave the trolls” at first. If you let a problematic user know he is banned, he will simply create a new account.
Isolating the troll however frees up moderator time spending, as it will usually take a good while for the person to realize he is in fact isolated.
They should add dummy upvotes and AI generate replies to these troll’s comments too. That would make it even harder to realize.
True, now with AI we have the ability to make shadowbanned people not realize for a long time that something has happened to their account. And as you say, it’s far more efficient than just banning them.