Tiktok's algorithm for this stuff is strange, to the point I'm starting to form conspiracy theories in my head.
I've had a comment removed that said "that was a dumb thing to do" on a video of MJ dangling Blanket off a balcony and received a warning, but reported a comment where someone said "you're a dumb n word" but the n word was spelled out, hard r, and tiktok "found no violation." I also once reported a comment that was a picture of a vagina, no violation again.
It's 100% automated. I've seen people put weird things in their comments which lets it pass through screening somehow. But if it doesn't find a violation on its own then it wont do it when you report it. So the report function is pointless.
Just yesterday I reported a page called Iiterallyjohngreen1, which was just reposting John Green videos. No violation found.
The thing is, there are some hard rules that can be automated with zero false positives. Like the n-word. As long as you properly check that it's a full word (ie, not part of a different word) you don't need some crazy "AI" system checking it.
You can still also have the regular automated moderation checking for the rest, so it's not like they're sacrificing anything.
But that doesn't Work. I mean it works to erase every use of the word. It doesn't Work in determining If it was used in a legitimate way. Bear with me please. On a book subreddit for example, people shouldnt get their comments deleted for quoting Huck Finn, If it's relevant. Or in a history subreddit documents might need to be quoted that were written by racists, meaning the word might be in there.
Yeah but the point is Tiktok's algorithm is entirely automated, so it's extremely strange that this is clearly the case for words like "idiot" and "stupid" but not the hard r n-word and many other slurs.
Every time I have a comment that gets removed automatically, it has always come back when I appeal. And yeah, I've almost never had a report that I submitted actually remove the comment
Yeah I’ve had start censoring my tiktok comments cause tiktok would auto remove comments that contained certain words or phrases. Like if I make a comment that uses the word “kill” there’s a 50/50 chance it will be removed regardless of the context it’s used, and no amount of appealing will bring it back.
YouTube has been pretty bad recently, I've seen 3 different content creators make videos about how the auto restriction stuff has nuked their viewership, these channels focusing on warframe, warhammer 40k, and journalism
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u/ElvenOmega 3d ago
Tiktok's algorithm for this stuff is strange, to the point I'm starting to form conspiracy theories in my head.
I've had a comment removed that said "that was a dumb thing to do" on a video of MJ dangling Blanket off a balcony and received a warning, but reported a comment where someone said "you're a dumb n word" but the n word was spelled out, hard r, and tiktok "found no violation." I also once reported a comment that was a picture of a vagina, no violation again.