YouTube banned on HN?
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). 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. 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... Lets see if a comment works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5uDf9i_Yc&feature=youtu.be That works. Well, that is the video that gives me the STOP SPAMMING message. Please email hn@ycombinator.com with any questions or issues. I don't know but I would be unsurprised were spammers plying their trade through youtube. Is the video hosted anywhere else?