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barkingcat on Jan 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the ...

It's because leaving comments enabled invites the worst of humanity to post excrement on your videos.

It's a well known issue.

Unless you have time to devote to deleting offensive comments (and many comments are just swear words copied and pasted a few hundred times), just disable comments.

sn_master on Jan 24, 2021 [–]

Often case it's the author disagreeing with a good number of the viewers, and not any spam or vulgar content.

sn_master on Jan 24, 2021 | [–]

YouTube already has moderation like Facebook if someone says Report, it's not like the channel author isn't responsible for every single comment.

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