# Odd youtube comment question re: visibility to channel owner **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 18, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442 "2024-09-18T18:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/1 "2024-09-18T18:53:43Z")
Is there some youtube algorithm/glitch that could make my comments invisible to the channel owner? I subscribe to several youtube channels and have been posting (positive/complimentary) comments for years. The channel owners in question have have a habit of of “loving” almost all comments, mine included. (comments are flagged with a ❤ icon when the owner does this) It’s a nice way of acknowledging everyone and promoting engagement. As of about 6 weeks ago, my comments on these channels don’t seem to be registering with the owners. This is across all of the channels. They still appear in the comment section but aren’t acknowledged. As a test, I posted the same comment twice, once with another youtube ID – one comment got a ❤, the other one didn’t. I can’t imagine I said anything on these different channels that would cause them all to ignore/mute me at the same time. I have to assume that my comments have somehow become invisible to the owners. Any ideas on how that would happen? ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/2 "2024-09-18T19:08:34Z")
Can you see your own comments when logged out? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/3 "2024-09-18T19:16:37Z")
Are you talking about ways to bypass Facebook rules? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/4 "2024-09-18T20:18:22Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > Can you see your own comments when logged out? Yes. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Are you talking about ways to bypass Facebook rules? Nothing to do with facebook. Never had an account, never commented on any facebook post. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/5 "2024-09-18T20:41:25Z")
I’m sorry- I meant YouTube. I’m in the Emergency room with a friend and I am making stupid mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/6 "2024-09-18T20:57:12Z")
Hope things are okay with your friend. No, not trying to bypass any rules. It’s just very odd that my comments, that were always acknowledged, seemed to have become invisible to the channel owners all at the same time. As another test, I posted a comment from the “invisible” account to a video on my secondary youtube channel (different google account). It shows up and I can ❤ the comment as the channel owner. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/7 "2024-09-18T20:59:12Z")
It’s quite possible that you’ve been caught up in an algorithm that is meant to keep people from comment-bombing YT comments. Nobody wants to come to a platform and engage with discussion if every post on a topic has the same comments from the same people. Or worse yet, the same comments from the same bots. You might think to yourself “well, I am a real person leaving nice commentary! I’m not an angry bot!” True that. But algorithms aren’t always discerning. How that may translate to your comments still being public but the creator not seeing them? I don’t know. Could be the creator gets notices of new fresh content but not content by suspected bots, and only loves non-bot comments. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/8 "2024-09-18T21:02:53Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Could be the creator gets notices of new fresh content but not content by suspected bots, and only loves non-bot comments. Makes sense. That’s my theory as well, but it’s strange that it happened across several different channels at the exact same time. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to post my comments from another account. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/9 "2024-09-18T21:10:50Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > it’s strange that it happened across several different channels at the exact same time If a YouTube algorithm identified you as a suspected bot, wouldn’t that have been across the board, on all channels? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/10 "2024-09-18T21:28:12Z")
Just had an idea…anyone have a youtube channel that I can post a comment to? ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/11 "2024-09-19T02:47:36Z")
Sure, try commenting on this one. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9gkfKmpTp_8/hqdefault.jpg "YAK by US Videotel 1990 Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gkfKmpTp_8) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/12 "2024-09-19T03:03:19Z")
Hey, thanks. Comment posted “Hello from blondebear at the SDMB 🙂” ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/13 "2024-09-19T03:14:55Z")
As a bystander, I can say that your comment does not appear to me if I leave it on the default sort of “top”. I only see your comment if I switch to “newest”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/14 "2024-09-19T03:18:10Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/15 "2024-09-19T03:19:45Z")
Yup - I only see the comment if I change the sorting to show “newest”. I did not get any notification about the comment. I usually get a notification and an email if someone posts a comment on one of my videos. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/16 "2024-09-19T03:40:56Z")
It also doesn’t show in my creator page under “latest comments and mentions” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/17 "2024-09-19T14:25:58Z")
Thanks for helping out with this. Okay, one last test. I commented using my other youtube account: “Hmmm…I thought YAK was a Russian fighter plane.” Did you get an email notification for it? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/18 "2024-09-19T18:01:38Z")
Try posting a comment on mine: [https://youtu.be/yGQj-7zMw2E](https://youtu.be/yGQj-7zMw2E) Youtube does some super weird stuff with comments behind the scenes - as a completely separate layer of activity from the comment controls that are available to the channel owner; as a channel owner, I can report and delete comments and I can shadowban individual commentors (so their comments are not visible to anyone but themselves - I believe this was conceived as a way of drawing less attention to a ban than outright refusing to accept comments from a person). I also have access to a simple keyword filter that I can configure, along with a standard profanity filter - comments disqualified by this go into a quarantine where I think they are visible only to the commentor, and to me, when I view the quarantine - where I can release the comments, or delete them, or ignore and leave them (and they get automatically deleted after 6 weeks). But in addition to that, the YouTube algorithm does some banning and hiding etc, based on its own criteria, which are not published, but probably include things like analysis of the content/wording of their comments and whether their comments get reported a lot. I do know that really long comments are more likely to get incorrectly flagged as spam, and I have encountered cases where I could see a comment on my mobile version of YouTube Studio, but it was nowhere to be found on the desktop browser version. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/19 "2024-09-19T18:01:41Z")
yup, got a notification in email, on the phone, and on the site. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442/20 "2024-09-19T18:18:38Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Try posting a comment on mine… Okay. From my “invisible” account: _Hi there, greetings from blondebear!_ From my other account: _Can man live on bread alone?_ > [@Mangetout](#): > > I do know that really long comments are more likely to get incorrectly flagged as spam… I’m thinking that might be the issue. I had a habit of posting long comments, sometimes a couple of paragraphs. It that is the cause, I wonder if there’s any way to un-spamify myself. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-youtube-comment-question-re-visibility-to-channel-owner/1007442.md?page=2)