Old spam comments can be deleted now

[markkaz]

I don't know when it started but recently, I noticed that when I went to the comments on my YouTube videos, I can now delete old spam comments that were posted before the Google Plus implementation.

 

[Kleineganz]

I was able to remove spam comments long before Google+ was integrated ...

 

[KGATV]

Couldn't you delete comments way before the G+ integration?

 

[Kleineganz]

Couldn't you delete comments way before the G+ integration?

I could ... and did, often.

 

[KGATV]

I could ... and did, often.

Yeah same here. I've deleted multiple comments in the past.

 

[Le Fancy Narwhal]

Apparently @markkaz has discovered a not-so-new-and-not-so-surprising feature of youtube, lol

 

[markkaz]

@Kleineganz @KGATV

When YouTube implemented the G+ comment system, the comments that were marked as spam before the implementation did not have the 'approve and trash' options on the right. The comments were stuck there in limbo and they couldn't be approved or deleted.

Now they are the options are available on the right.

 

[Kleineganz]

@Kleineganz @KGATV

When YouTube implemented the G+ comment system, the comments that were marked as spam before the implementation did not have the 'approve and trash' options on the right. The comments were stuck there in limbo and they couldn't be approved or deleted.

Now they are the options are available on the right.

I have not had any problems deleting unwanted comments before, during or after the transition to Google+ ... yes the icons are different now, before it was a little drop down arrow with a menu to choose, but the option has always existed.

 

[markkaz]

@Kleineganz Interesting. For the older spam comments, I didn't have anything to the right. No drop-down menu, nothing. It was white space. Thanks.

 

[MarkRodriguez2012]

Not for me anyways. I would delete them but whenever I went back to the video, they're pop right back up again. I hope they did fix that because I tons of those stupid 'comments' to delete.