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thefilmchick Expert Vidder
Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 4030 Location: Albany, NY
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: YouTube Spammers: Where's the flyswatter? |
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Recently, I've been getting up to three spammers a day on my videos, and this has happened in the past week, much more so than it had earlier. I usually run the combo of marking the comment as spam and blocking the user.
Is there any other way to block them, short of approving all comments? (Because if I have to read the spam to disapprove it, that's the same amount of hassle as marking spam/blocking the user.) Does anyone know a failsafe way (other than not posting vids on YouTube, haha) to make these twits go away?
Signed,
I Don't Like Spam! _________________ I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
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mistojen Advanced Vidder
Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 1699 Location: Corning, NY
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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I've been getting them too. Let me know if you find a way to block them, chick, cuz I'm OVER it! _________________ avatar: Plastic!Winchester Theater by anteka @ LJ; icon by me
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Aislynn Council Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35782 Location: Sawyerville, USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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The thing I've been having lately is random people wanting to share their vids with me (and their profile is full of people asking, "Why are you wanting me to share vids with you? Who ARE you?" comments ). And I've had the "see hotttt grls LIVE at..." spam popping up ALL over my vids lately, too. Short of having to approve all comments or just deleting them/reporting them as spam as they show up, I haven't found any way around them. |
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Jemmz Council Member
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 21154 Location: Ultra (DE)
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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I've been getting them too. They're completely inappropriate, who are these spammers?? |
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mistojen Advanced Vidder
Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 1699 Location: Corning, NY
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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I've been getting the random people wanting to share videos with me, too So weird. I usually just delete them. If I don't know you, I don't want to "share videos" with you, because I really don't care what you have to offer...ESPECIALLY if you've just got a ton of random vids of yourself and your friends doing stupid things or, worse, porn-type stuff. Stupid people. _________________ avatar: Plastic!Winchester Theater by anteka @ LJ; icon by me
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Charmed_Charlee Expert Vidder
Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 18232 Location: Somewhere...
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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when i check my mail and i see youtube, i'm like whoo new comment and i read it and i'm like WTF i'm sick of it stupid spam.
I get weird people wanting to share videos and i look at their page and i'm like what, and someone on my page commented me saying cool videos, take a look at my page and maybe subscribe and it's a way of getting more subscribers |
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Izzy94 Advanced Vidder
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 485
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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"Find hot cam girls at Blabla _. Bla _. net"
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Just mark them as spam and you get any extra comment? |
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Aislynn Council Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35782 Location: Sawyerville, USA
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Just got this message at YouTube:
"Want to look classy and wealthy? Go to spamityspamspam dot com and find good quality imitation Rolex watches!"
Okay, I'll be back, I'm gonna go order a Rolex knock-off and when I come back wearing my new fake bling, I want everybody to tell me how classy and wealthy I look, a'ight? |
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thefilmchick Expert Vidder
Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 4030 Location: Albany, NY
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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_________________ I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
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mistojen Advanced Vidder
Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 1699 Location: Corning, NY
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: |
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LMFAO! That's beautiful! _________________ avatar: Plastic!Winchester Theater by anteka @ LJ; icon by me
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thefilmchick Expert Vidder
Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 4030 Location: Albany, NY
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Flavor Flav makes even horrible spam better!
(Edit: Huh. I always thought the guy's stagename was 'Flava Flav.' I was wrong, so says Wikipedia.) _________________ I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
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wolffootball37 Expert Vidder
Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 4210 Location: Plano, Texas
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:52 am Post subject: |
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Aislynn wrote: | Just got this message at YouTube:
"Want to look classy and wealthy? Go to spamityspamspam dot com and find good quality imitation Rolex watches!"
Okay, I'll be back, I'm gonna go order a Rolex knock-off and when I come back wearing my new fake bling, I want everybody to tell me how classy and wealthy I look, a'ight? |
i actually just got that one 2 minutes ago! I keep getting wierd spam on my vids. Funniest thing though, and this isnt spam, someone i guess saw that b-day vid i made for Ais, and messaged me asking if i worked for lost. I guess he thought since i did that vid on the beach, and i make lost vids, i might live in Hawai!, and work for the show. I WISH! |
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Aislynn Council Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35782 Location: Sawyerville, USA
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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thefilmchick wrote: | |
ZOMG! *clutches sides from laughing so hard*
wolffootball37 wrote: | i actually just got that one 2 minutes ago! I keep getting wierd spam on my vids. Funniest thing though, and this isnt spam, someone i guess saw that b-day vid i made for Ais, and messaged me asking if i worked for lost. I guess he thought since i did that vid on the beach, and i make lost vids, i might live in Hawai!, and work for the show. I WISH! |
Okay, everybody watch out, me and Trey's gonna come in with our Flavor Flav bling and y'all just gonna be envying us something fierce! (You know, it does sound like they say "Flava Flav" doesn't it? Oh well, who knew? )
And hey, since Trey is now working for Lost, I bet he'll spring for some bling for everybody! We can ALL have our Flavor Flav bling and look classy and wealthy!
(Oh dear, that pic just killed me... It was so unexpected, yet so right! ) |
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SassyLostie2 Expert Vidder
Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 28138 Location: California
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: |
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OMG, those 'check out hot webcam girls at camzot (or whatev) . com', really bugs me. I always mark them as spam, it doesn't matter where they are. Other people's vids included. Those people need to get a life! Jeez...
I've been getting random people asking me to share vids, and I have been checking out their pages first before accepting. Making sure that they have a Lost or Heroes vid in their faves or somethin. Sadly, I'm not sure how to stop all this horrible spam, except to just mark it as spam as soon as you get it and block the users. Sorry about that, and hang in there.
There's always the ranting thread... _________________
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Charmed_Charlee Expert Vidder
Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 18232 Location: Somewhere...
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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Aislynn wrote: | Just got this message at YouTube:
"Want to look classy and wealthy? Go to spamityspamspam dot com and find good quality imitation Rolex watches!"
Okay, I'll be back, I'm gonna go order a Rolex knock-off and when I come back wearing my new fake bling, I want everybody to tell me how classy and wealthy I look, a'ight? |
I got that email aswell so annoying
lmao flavour of love That guy is annoying just like New York (sorry watch the shows lol) |
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