What to do about other youtubers spamming your video?

Hopefully I can line out a solid answer for you here:
  1. Go to your Community Settings and blacklist certain phrases that they commonly use, such as "Please subscribe" "check out my" "my channel" etc. so those comments automatically go to spam, and then filter from there so no one can see them.
  2. Generic comments do not hurt your video - they help them because they're engagement. Deleting the comments will only hurt you because the channel is still going to jump on your videos and give you low watch time, but you won't have the engagement either as a result. That kind of comment ("Good job"/"Great video") does not serve as good promotion for them since they aren't adding anything to the discussion, but by deleting the comment you're only sacrificing any gain from their spam and they still take away from your watch time.
    1. There will always be plenty of people who abandon videos early, that's why watch time is competitive. Trying to filter out a single person by subtlely deleting their comments and hoping they get the message is a waste of your time.
  3. With that, regularly engaging with channels in your niche is one of the best ways to get involved in a YouTube scene and organically grow your channel. While comments seeming "generic" may bother you, they could just be bad at comments. Doing so naturally is the only way to really get anyone to notice, so if they always just say "good video," then they're not convincing anyone to come over anyway. But punishing channels who are watching your videos and commenting - but just happen to also want to grow their own similar channel - is not cool.
 
some generic comments might just be older people like kids parents.
I know that my mam comments like that on facebook haha.
"very nice picture. what a fun time"
"I really like this video"
etc.
 
From a purely numbers point of view let's say you've got 10,000 views on a video. That's not a crazy huge number. In the grand scheme of things that's a tiny amount on YouTube. Let's say you've got 100 spammers that all placed a comment and watched zero percent of your video. Let's say your average view time had been 50%. Factor in 100/10,000 at 0% and they just dropped your average view time by 1% from 50% to 49%. Totally inconsequential. Especially considering it's probably more like 10 spammers. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't "hide this users comments" as babyteeth4 suggested. I think you should do as they suggested. Just from an algorithm perspective it's not going to affect your videos performance. And this is coming from someone whose a huge promoter of average view time being the most important factor. So if it annoys you block them. If you're worried about it hurting your video performance it won't. Hope that helps.
 
Thanks for the great responses everyone. Helps to bounce around these voices in your head. And hello youtuber1978! I actually read some of your posts when I first signed up and it lead me on the path to improving my retention. so thanks for that!

Happy Holidays everyone!
 
FamilyToyReview said:
Thanks for the great responses everyone. Helps to bounce around these voices in your head. And hello youtuber1978! I actually read some of your posts when I first signed up and it lead me on the path to improving my retention. so thanks for that!

Happy Holidays everyone!
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Glad to see another convert to the average view time theory of success:)!!!
 
EposVox said:
Might I bump in and ask what posts they're referring to? ^^ It won't let me view your profile.
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I can summarize it here.

Audience retention is the single most important thing that you can do to make your channel successful. Anything that has the potential to reduce the average percent they watch is bad. No one really seems to disagree with that. It's the following decisions that seem to be controversial but that I stand 100% behind.

1. Don't promote ever. Once your channel is big you can get away with it but when you're starting out it will kill your channel.
2. Don't try to make super original content.
3. Don't spend time asking for shoutouts, looking for colabs, etc.
 
YouTuber1978 said:
I can summarize it here.

Audience retention is the single most important thing that you can do to make your channel successful. Anything that has the potential to reduce the average percent they watch is bad. No one really seems to disagree with that. It's the following decisions that seem to be controversial but that I stand 100% behind.

1. Don't promote ever. Once your channel is big you can get away with it but when you're starting out it will kill your channel.
2. Don't try to make super original content.
3. Don't spend time asking for shoutouts, looking for colabs, etc.
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Lol, okay. Thanks for summarizing.
 
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