PlogLod

As I addressed in other comments, it's not creators. It's YouTube. Creators have confirmed to me they're not deleting comments. And by YouTube, I mean some kind of automated system because it's insta-removal for various random things I say. Like literally harmless things. What you just said could be deleted if you were me, for example. I don't know why. People won't believe me and that sucks. I wish someone would believe me. Well, a few people did.

Yeah, that's fine. If they want to delete comments that are actually problematic, I don't have a problem with that. But the system is actually broken. Nothing I'm saying is problematic. I'll give you an example. What you just said now could easily be deleted. What I'm saying right now could easily be deleted. Anything I say could be deleted for no apparent reason when there's nothing wrong with it at all. That's what people aren't understanding.

Exactly, everyone uses it. Otherwise I would 100% be using Oddysee or something like that. The problem is all the main content is on YouTube so I want to be able to comment on YouTube.

I already addressed this here in another comment right after I posted because I know people always claim this lol (based on what I saw of Reddit threads discussing this issue). No it's not the creators, it's 100% YouTube bots. There's a slight possibility it could be people working for YouTube in certain cases on popular channels but mostly it's definitely bots. I often know the creators personally and they've confirmed they're not deleting them and they don't know why it happens.

It happens instantly and I often know the creators personally, and they confirm that they're not deleting them. It's bots 100%. It also bypasses when I write things in different ways, with no real "rhyme or reason" to it.

Thank you.

Good point. I guess it was worth a try. Someone might know. There were people on some Reddit posts who knew (but didn't specify an exact format that worked, and the ones I tried I was still having the same problems with). I guess I could try asking on the YouTube community (if there is one), but judging by the toxic replies and hostility in this thread, that could be a shitshow.

These are creative solutions. I really appreciate you trying to answer when no one else would. But I'm probably not going to change each letter or word individually for everything I say (or translate to another language, which means most people can't understand it) when I don't even know what things are going to be removed for seemingly no reason. What I do currently is similar, if I notice that my comment has been removed, I usually try to rephrase it, split it up, and post it in different ways through trial and error.

Sometimes I've noticed if my comment is simply longer than a few sentences (or a small invisible character limit, seemingly), it gets deleted. So truncating what I'm saying can work.

But all of this is very difficult to do and never works consistently. I still get random comments deleted all the time.

The desire for a text character format that doesn't get removed by default is this: I would be able to type normally without having to worry about deletion. I would not say anything bad, because I don't already. It would just mean that this faulty comment deletion would no longer prevent me from using the comments section.

So let's take that example (and of course wanting to be able to comment completely normal things without them being deleted is not as extreme as trying to pick a lock, but close enough).

What if the person wasn't able to share exactly why they needed to pick a lock, but they gave you some information pointing to what it was, and asked you to trust that their intentions were pure and they weren't doing anything wrong?

Would you still refuse to help them?

Obviously this is a hypothetical, and I gave given multiple examples already of the types of harmless comments that get deleted, but people still refuse to even consider the possibility of helping me.

Inb4 downvotes, because that's how this is going, downvote me for no reason without explaining why, or for reasons that make no sense.

Well that example actually makes sense. It demonstrates that you don't necessarily need to know the specifics in order to help, you just want to know because you're apprehensive. What the commenter you were replying to was saying was a completely disingenuous comparison.