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YouTube banned on HN?

by hxn on 4/29/15, 4:48 PM with 6 comments

When I try to submit a YouTube video, I get a STOP SPAMMING message. Is YouTube banned?

The video I wanted to submit is of a selfmade drone with 2000kv (not mine).

  • by brudgers on 4/29/15, 5:24 PM

    Googling "selfmade drone with 2000kv" turned up the video that appears to be banned based on your comment.

    Googling "Quadmovr" which appears prominently in the video produces a lot of SEO'd results. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd hammered HN. Combined with the relative dormancy of your account, there's a good chance that the account and the specific video correlate with previous problematic accounts to trigger blocking.

    That a link to the video was posted anyway despite the request to stop spamming suggests that the heuristic may not be out of line.

  • by FatalLogic on 4/29/15, 4:57 PM

  • by sctb on 4/29/15, 5:55 PM

    Please email hn@ycombinator.com with any questions or issues.

  • by MichaelCrawford on 4/29/15, 4:50 PM

    I don't know but I would be unsurprised were spammers plying their trade through youtube.

    Is the video hosted anywhere else?