A tube for spam
This is new , and annoying, phenomena. Youtube is being used to send spam messages, that bypass the anti-spam messages. Here is how its work - first the spammer post a spam message on the YouTube message system, which trigger an e-mail to the e-mail address specified by the user. The results are - double spam: at Youtube inbox and at the user e-mail address. This problem should be to complicate to solve, a simple CAPTCHA can eliminate the vast majority of spam messages, but ignoring it going to annoy the users to no end.
regardless to say that my e-mail to YouTube’s customer service about this issue remained un-answered.
UPDATE: I had to remove the screenshot that was here origanally due to problems it caused the server. I add link to it in the beginning of the post. Additionally some good soul in Digg created a mirror site with the original post.
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I wish there was a way to report spam or abuse from people sending messages within youtube.
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One ultimately has to move to a moderator or user-voted on system. Slashdot has had this for years -- the crappy posts get moderated down and one just views the stream 1 level above the garbage level to only have to view things of use vs. time wasters. One would suppose given the history of Usenet News (which is 27 years old and suffered from SPADvertising to the point of being useless on all unmoderated forums) that developers of open forums would have learned something by now. But *noooo...*. As Forrest would say "Stupid is as stupid does."
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