YouTube banned on HN?

5 points by hxn 11 years ago | 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).

brudgers 11 years ago |

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.

FatalLogic 11 years ago |

YouTube doesn't seem to be banned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443733

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.youtube.com%2F&sort=byDate...

hxn 11 years ago | |

Lets see if a comment works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5uDf9i_Yc&feature=youtu.be

hxn 11 years ago | | |

That works. Well, that is the video that gives me the STOP SPAMMING message.

sctb 11 years ago |

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

MichaelCrawford 11 years ago |

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

Is the video hosted anywhere else?