Call it a work in progress. YouTube is now trying to stanch the increased flow of spam on its site, just weeks after a new system was employed to clean it up, the company recently said.
Earlier this month the Google-owned site overhauled its commenting system to push better quality comments and ones from certain people higher up, while diminishing less important or spammy posts. As part of those changes, users were forced to sign up for Google+, if they hadn't already, and comment using that account.
The new system was designed to reduce spam and lead to better conversations on the site, but things didn't quite turn out that way.
While the system did address previous spam issues, it also introduced new opportunities for abuse, YouTube said in a Monday evening blog post.
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