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When Pricks Are Helpful

So over the not-quite-year that our channel's been in operation, a handful of people have been banned for racist, homophobic, or threatening comments. Criticism and idiocy, we leave, but we ban bigotry and outright abusive commenters.

One of the banned people found out they were banned and made a new account so they could leave a comment bitching about how they never said anything that wasn't legit criticism, blah blah blah, yadda yadda. He finished it up with saying that he was disheartened that we'd spend all that time deleting all of his comments and banning him and how we'd lost a loyal viewer! (A whole viewer! OH NOES!) So I banned that account too.

He then proceeded to dislike all 300+ videos we've put out, thus giving us a dramatic one-day boost in interaction and demonstrably moving us up in search rankings for a few different queries for a brief period. Oh, sweet dickhead, you've aided us more than you'll ever know.

Posted Aug 14, 2014, 6:18 PM UTC

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dan958https://www.youtube.com/Ordinary0Gamer•

(A whole viewer! OH NOES!)

Woah, you're talking about nearly my entire viewership.

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MetalTuskederohttp://www.youtube.com/user/tuskederometal•

I second that.

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Dannflorhttp://www.youtube.com/user/DannflorStudios•

I'd go as far to say as I am my only viewer.

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Kovitlachttps://www.youtube.com/user/Kovitlac•

Gotta love dem haters. I ban them on my channel, too.

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RhiannePlayshttps://www.youtube.com/user/RhiannePlays/•

Well, 300 dislikes is certainly dedication.

That's pretty neat though!

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Seriously. Gonna put that on my resume as proof that I'm a motivator.

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RhiannePlayshttps://www.youtube.com/user/RhiannePlays/•

I'm certainly impressed. You must've really got him going!

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sashimi_tacohttps://www.youtube.com/GeekRemix•

Nothing in this world is sweeter than the tears of frustrated nerds.

How dare you take away their free speech!?

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lfmconsummateshttp://www.youtube.com/joshccolson•

Not even mad. That's amazing

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Not even mad. That's amazing.

Felt it needed the link.

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Contardationhttps://www.youtube.com/user/contardation•

Hilarious story.

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[deleted]•

oh man, when I get an audience I just want to encourage everyone in the comments to be the worst person they can be, just everywhere you look in the comments section, like 9/11 gifs blaming gay hispanics, that kind of disgusting bullshit, the bigger shit storm the better.

You see theres beauty to be found in lawless chaos, and more to the point anger pain and frustration from 12 year olds, it's like being kim jong un, you wake up, you go to your balcony and in the distance you see pain and suffering and you just breathe it all in with a shit eating grin, fucking delicious I say.

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Then I wish you a vast and glorious pit of madness to cackle madly over.

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[deleted]•

and good luck with your friendlier comments section.

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DragoniteSpamhttps://www.youtube.com/c/DragoniteSpam•

never think these things through, these kinds of people don't.

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Talio202https://www.youtube.com/user/Talio202Gaming•

Well, at least you have a dedicated fan. After all he was really dedicated to hating you. So positives I guess? I hope he leaves you alone now.

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

No, he doesn't. He comes back every few days and keeps bitching. Oh well, serves my purposes well enough.

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JonPaulahttp://www.YouTube.com/Jogwheel•

If I had a dollar for every blocked user that came back and complained about being blocked, I could probably buy a PS4. No joke.

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TheMVSGamerhttp://www.youtube.com/user/SinisterPixeLP•

Maybe it's worth reviewing the comments he did leave. He may be being completely honest. Perhaps he did leave constructive criticism you just disregarded as a hater. I personally have never blocked anyone that trolled my videos, gave me negative criticism, or what have you, because at the end of the day I don't feel I have the right to silence people. If people say something negative about my content, I don't tell them to gtfo. I review my content and find a way to make it positive.

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

To repeat: we only ban people for bigotry and threats.

Fuck off with your happy rainbow bullshit. There's no learning experience in some jackass calling me a faggot kike.

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Contardationhttps://www.youtube.com/user/contardation•

People should be accountable for what they say. And if some dickhead is pushing bigotry then its the right thing to do to silence that poisonous shit.

If he silenced a dissenting opinion then that's one thing. But he clearly didn't say that.

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And never forget that when some asshole online says "lol u mad bro?" it's totally okay to say "YES, I AM MAD, BECAUSE YOU'RE BEING AN ASSHOLE. STFU."

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Exactly. People calling us idiots, saying we suck at the game (which we usually do), telling us what we should or shouldn't play, whatever... we leave all of that.

"Someone should rape you to death" (another choice one we received once, but I don't think that was this guy) on the other hand, gets a banning. Swift and immediate.

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Kovitlachttps://www.youtube.com/user/Kovitlac•

"Exactly. People calling us idiots, saying we suck at the game (which we usually do), telling us what we should or shouldn't play, whatever... we leave all of that."

Heh, I even get rid of all that. I don't care if people think I'm bad (usually it's not even that they think I'm bad - it's that, in multiplayer, I don't have the exact same play style that they do). But screaming it on someone's channel is just plain rude. I'll allow their comments, so long as they're able to conduct themselves maturely. If they fail to handle that responsibility, I see no reason in allowed them further access to my comment section.

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mrblackplayshttps://www.youtube.com/user/mrblackplayz•

Got a link to your channel breh?

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Sorry, I apparently had my flair disabled for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated

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TheMVSGamerhttp://www.youtube.com/user/SinisterPixeLP•

I'm pretty sure the learning experience in this case is learning how to deal with people who act negatively towards you, which judging from everything I've seen you write in this thread, you can not do well at all.

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Someone spouts bigotry on our channel, they get banned. Letting that kind of behavior go unchecked when I have the simple power to remove hate from my channel isn't some high ground, it's precisely the opposite. It's allowing hateful behavior to fester.

You've been downvoted to the negatives for this thread (I didn't downvote you, by the way), you've been told that banning people pushing bigotry is the right thing, the thread says it's okay to tell people when they're being assholes. Wanna talk about people not learning from criticism? It looks like you don't know when your opinion is being firmly disagreed with.

You want to late hate and bigotry fester in your comment section, fine. Don't you dare tell me to just let someone spew hate speech at me and ignore it. I will not sit idly by and let my LGBT status or my race be used as a weapon.

As I've said elsewhere, criticism, complaints, even flat-out insults get left alone on the channel. We let people say what they want about us. They do not and will not be allowed to use hate speech.

Had a subscriber named "NigNog" with a minstrel show image as his YouTube icon. Banned him before he commented because it's fucking racist and that's wrong.

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I usually give people one pass, but past that point if they even remotely irritate me that ass is out the door. I'm a petty tyrant on a petty throne and DGAF. At least I can admit it. XD

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DocBTOPhttp://www.youtube.com/user/TinPlated•

Hear, hear.

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Kovitlachttps://www.youtube.com/user/Kovitlac•

The point is that it is YOUR channel, and you can allow what you like. Banning someone who is screaming racist bullshit or threats isn't 'silencing their free speech'. It's making your comment section a relatively safe place for other viewers. Personally, I feel very nervous when I post one rational thing in a sea of manic bullshit (such as when idiots are commenting on how stereotypical 'gurl gamrs' are). Because I can tell that there is no safe place for me, there. Because I know that the person managing the channel isn't going to give a shit whether I start receiving threats, being called a 'fat whore', what have you. And that makes me not even want to view their content anymore.

You are free to allow what you want. As are the rest of us. We're certainly not silencing anyway, save for the disgusting kinds of people who post that level of pure shit.

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