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The fault is on YouTube’s reliance on automated systems, making permanent decisions, without human intervention. However, in my humble opinion, people are naturally lazy. The humans who might be charged with reviewing automated decisions are no different. Especially if there is a cultural or language divide.

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Usually I have to type :%s, and a trailing /g, you can omit those?

without % it only does the change on the current line; and /g means change all occurrences instead of first (per line)

no - see above comment re illegal sweepstakes

Preventing illegal sweepstakes, even if accidentally illegal ones, seems like a good rule for YT to enforce. That being said, banning accounts without a process to solve the issue until there’s enough public furor for a moderator to notice is a bad system. If someone repeatedly breaks the rules, fine permaban them. But having a fake appeal process is pretty annoying, and makes me not want to do business with Google in general.

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