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Hi,
Over the last day or so, the number of subscribers to my channel has substantially dropped from abotu 25 a day to 1). I have a feeling I've been marked as spam. Does anyone know if there's any way I can fix this. Do I have to keep opening new accounts every time I get labeled as spam? The stuff I'm sending out isn't even spammy and I get loads of emails back thanking me for sending them my videos. Has anyone else had this problem? Am I even incorrect in thinking I've been labeled as spam? What happenes to people's accounts when a few people press the 'spam' button?
Is there anything I can do?
Chris
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that sounds awful if it's true. My daily subs have a weird range, sometimes i get 10 in one day and other times i get 2 so i wouldnt feel bad if you have one bad day. but do try not to send to the same person more than once, i set mine to only send a message to a certain account once so it's not spamming.
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I also would like to get a reply on this matter ASAP.
I've been sharing a music video and getting all positive response, but today I got one person, who called me a spammer and used words like "I really enjoyed your video, but I gave you a thumbs down because you have audacity to spam my inbox with your shared video".
I replied to him that it was just 1 video and it's not spam and he doesn't have to watch it and he can take a hike and that I get tens of shared videos a day and I watch most of them and I never thought that people sharing their hard work - means they should be punished for it.
For this he left a bunch of really nasty comments on my video calling me awful names and saying that he reported me to youtube for being a spammer and a rude person and that I'm gonna have a "strike on my account" - whatever this means.
This completely ruined my experience of sharing my videos with Tube Toolbox, I've stopped all the outgoing messages and am thinking of never using it again.
I don't have a thick enough skin to be called horrible names just because I shared a piece of my hard work with a few hundred people without asking them for anything, only to watch a 3 min video.
Ok, now that I've vented, I also have a real question - I keep reading that Tube Toolbox is "legal in youtube world" and it only automates the tasks, so I guess I shouldn't worry about this crazy person's threats?
What's a "strike" to one's account?
How youtube is gonna react if this person complains to them that I sent him 1 video (Oh horror!)?
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@ChrisWere100 Usually nothing happens, unless the messages were actually spam as in selling a product off of youtube, or the video being shared is marketing a product. Might have just been dud lists you've sent to recently, or a lot of the people you sent to didn't check their messages. Just try to be the least "spammy" as some people would call it. Say things like "check this video out -if you have the time-".
@Divina There will be always be people who accuse others of spamming just from sharing a video. Very ignorant in my opinion. I think it's best just to block the person honestly and remove their comment if they commented on your video accusing you of being a spammer. You definitely won't get a strike just from a few people reporting you. There's no way he can even contact youtube about reporting a "rude person" lol. Even if you don't use Tube Toolbox, and instead send messages and shared videos manually, there will still be people that accuse you of spamming.
I'm pretty much 100% positive that YouTube will only ban accounts sending messages if the purpose of the message is to sell the user a product or get the user to go to another site, or if the video they're promoting does the same thing. If the purpose is promoting your channel, YouTube doesn't mind, and probably likes when partners do it(more revenue lol)
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I've had similar problems.
Lot's of people thanking me for sharing the videos and there's been a great deal of comments on the video with people talking about their own experiences about the topic, BUT the accounts that I sent the video from were shutdown from youtube. I never sent any video from my main channel, I simply crafted a message with the video share feature that said something along the lines of:
"Hey I saw your comment on a video about xyz, my friend just made a video about his experiences with xyz and how he dealt with it. maybe take a look I hope it helps you :)
xoxo"
The fake channels I make all have a girls name with a picture/background/favourited videos/subscriptions.
YouTube banned those accounts.
The settings I used for the video delay were:
Send Delay: 10-30s
Auto Retry:30-33mins
The lists were about 3000 people long and I would break up the sending into 300-400 chunks
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@JimmyG
I recently read in the Google Groups forums that you can get banned for using unrelated thumbnails on your videos. So maybe messages from fake accounts with unrelated/fake girl pictures fall under that category?
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Divina wrote:I also would like to get a reply on this matter ASAP.
I've been sharing a music video and getting all positive response, but today I got one person, who called me a spammer and used words like "I really enjoyed your video, but I gave you a thumbs down because you have audacity to spam my inbox with your shared video".
I replied to him that it was just 1 video and it's not spam and he doesn't have to watch it and he can take a hike and that I get tens of shared videos a day and I watch most of them and I never thought that people sharing their hard work - means they should be punished for it.
For this he left a bunch of really nasty comments on my video calling me awful names and saying that he reported me to youtube for being a spammer and a rude person and that I'm gonna have a "strike on my account" - whatever this means.
This completely ruined my experience of sharing my videos with Tube Toolbox, I've stopped all the outgoing messages and am thinking of never using it again.
I don't have a thick enough skin to be called horrible names just because I shared a piece of my hard work with a few hundred people without asking them for anything, only to watch a 3 min video.
Ok, now that I've vented, I also have a real question - I keep reading that Tube Toolbox is "legal in youtube world" and it only automates the tasks, so I guess I shouldn't worry about this crazy person's threats?
What's a "strike" to one's account?
How youtube is gonna react if this person complains to them that I sent him 1 video (Oh horror!)?
I can relate to your situation. I've been using Tube Toolbox for 5 months so far and I occasionally get some nasty messages back from Youtube users who think I have spammed them. However, I use dummy accounts and they still think my main account spammed them >lol?< Don't let the occasional users who send you bad messages stop you from sharing your videos. Don't even acknowledge them when they call you a spammer, because it will just fuel their fire to hate even more. Block the users and move on. If you don't have the time to moderate the comments on your channel you can set to approved only. I use approve comments only on my channel and vids. It's a pain to approve all of them, but it's better in the end (at-least in my opinion). Just disapprove the negative comments, block and continue on towards your way to the top. Some users on Youtube will threaten to report you to Youtube blah blah blah, just block them. In the end they never do anything lol.
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