youtube comments

[alonewiththemoon]

I am suddenly getting a bunch of spammy comments on my Ad Mortem Festinamus video on YouTube--not any of the other videos, just that one.  I'm guessing that maybe it's because it has over 5,000 views (!) so it's triggered the spambots to go after it.  I have to approve comments before they are posted so I'm easily able to remove the comments before they go public, but it's a bit of a pain, I'm getting a couple every day.  Is there any way to fight this?

Some of them make me laugh--why on earth would I approve a comment that says "this is boring, cum see real naked girls at xxx website"?  Though if it's bots that are posting the comments, I suppose they don't know that the comments aren't automatically getting posted.

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[phoenixdancer.livejournal.com]

I've been getting a ton of porn'ish comments on there as well...mostly on my gothic bellydance stuff. How do you approve comments? I've just had to go on there and delete the smutty ones :-(

[alonewiththemoon]

It's one of the settings when you upload a video, I think, in the area where you can choose to disable ratings as well. When someone comments on one of my videos, I get an email notification telling me that there is a comment waiting for my approval with a link to the video's page. I'm not sure if you can change that setting after you upload the video, or only at the time of upload.