YouTube is engaged on decreasing remark spams and impersonation on the video sharing platform by including new options. YouTube introduced that, as of July 29, 2022, it’ll now not permit channels to cover the variety of subscribers they’ve. The firm stated that it will make it more durable for impersonators to pose as different creators on the platform. YouTube has additionally added a brand new remark moderation setting to extend strictness. furthermore, it’s limiting the kind and frequency of particular characters that can be utilized in a channel identify.

In an official neighborhood put up, YouTube has announced three new options to counter the issue of spam feedback and impersonators. YouTube will no lengthy permit channels to cover their subscriber counts to make it more durable for individuals who impersonate widespread YouTube creators. As of July 29, 2022, customers will now not must choice to disable the visibility of the variety of subscribers on their channel.

YouTube stated, “We’ve seen bad actors hide their channels’ subscriber counts to impersonate larger, more prominent channels on YouTube — they pretend to be other creators in comments, then lure people to their impersonating channel page.” The platform additionally acknowledged the truth that some creators like to cover the variety of subscribers they’ve whereas constructing an viewers. YouTube added, “We made this decision to help our community be safer as a whole but we recognize not all creators using this option are bad actors.”

The video sharing platform has additionally added improved creator remark moderation setting in YouTube Studio. Creators will be capable of use the improved moderation setting to extend strictness within the Held for Review tab. It has been added as an elective function that may filter out extra spam and identification abuse feedback.

Impersonators, earlier, may tweak their identify by including particular characters to their YouTube channel’s identify that allowed them to have names an identical to different well-known creators. Hence, YouTube is decreasing the variety of characters obtainable for selecting a channel identify. The firm stated that the replace is not going to let impersonators replace their channel identify to one thing like “¥ouⓉube✅”.