Today I posted a comment under a video on YT uploaded by an old friend of mine, a girl-singer with whom I used to play years ago. The comment survived perhaps half an hour then disappeared. Is it possible that it was deleted by some crazy verification algorithm because it contained a link to one of my recordings on SoundCloud?
undoubtedly. I’m going to bet that buried somewhere under youtube’s TOS there is a statement about linking to perceived competitors
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Thanks a lot for confirming my suspicions. I never read full TOS text, my bad… Anyway, lesson learned.
can’t blame you. I wonder if someone has counted out how much of your life you would waste away if you read every word of every TOS of every service you ever sign up to use?
You’re right, most people never read those… I think that stipulation of not linking competitors’ websites is a bit crazy; it’s very unlikely that the SC, when linked, would actually steal any YT users. They’re different platforms, with different presentation means and purposes.
From a quick google search, it seems it could be a setting activated by the poster of the video to prevent spam. Apparently this setting could delete pretty much every post with a link.
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