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This could be for multiple reasons - a cache consistency issue, the user could be blocked by that channel, or the comment could contain a channel blocked word.

https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/connect-with-...

I'd guess that if the automatic comment approval system isn't immediate then YouTube shows the comment to the poster so they can validate it was submitted and they haven't made typos but other users don't see it - and when the comment is checked (~20s later) and found bad it gets deleted.

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Nope. This was on the creator's page. I commented with the word "poof" as described and sure enough about 25 seconds later the comment was removed.

So YouTube's automatic blocked word system probably removed it as I said.

You said "channel block list". This word isn't on any such list. This was decided upon by YouTube and YouTube only, and is very clearly a deliberate one.

The video maker notes that it is one of their own videos that they are commenting on, and the comment is not being held for review.

The comment is still being processed by YouTubes comment checking system, the poster is probably the only person that can see the comment until it has been checked. As others have said its probably being removed for including the word "Poof"

Poof and it's gone...

A perfectly normal word...

It had multiple meanings, one of which is quite offensive.

Wait, what? Why is poof offensive?

It’s a reference to homosexuality. Any sexual references that are not utterly formal or medical are considered offensive by someone.

Even “gay” which is popularized and usable in casual conversation is still considered offensive by some people because of its historical aspect.

I'd wager 10% of the words in the english language are used as euphemisms or slang for something related to sexuality by some group.

For example read up on urban dictionary for some random word -- say omelette:

"Slang word for a sexual orgy." https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=omelette

So that can't be a yardstick -- there has to be some more objective criteria where a word is recognized as truly offensive by a large majority of the population.

I’m not sure that objective criteria will work here. Slang terms about sexuality often encode the bias of the majority and are targeted at humiliating a minority group.

Rather than trying for a universal measure, I think it’s best to leave it up to individuals, letting us all use whatever empathy and context we personally have.

It appears he was replying to someone else who had the same issue and was attempting to explain why that user’s comments were being deleted. I doubt those comments also contained the word “poof.” Also, the video in question contains numerous comments with the word “poof” that remain visible.

Also I'm pretty sure that trying to post the same reply to the same user from a same account multiple times in a row will trigger some sort of spam detection.

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