Duplicate Comment Scanning
- By default, at the end of Auto-Smart mode and Sensitive-Smart mode, the program will then check for users who left repeated comments
- Comments need not be exactly the same, the program uses an algorithm called Levenshtein distance to detect similar comments
- The default settings will flag a user for duplicates if on one video (or community post), they make 5 or more comments that are >90% similar to each other
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duplicate_check_modes- Allows you to choose which filtering modes will also scan for duplicates- You can also disable it completely by entering 'None'
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levenshtein_distance- Determines at least how similar two comments must be to be considered a duplicate- 1.0 means comments must be 100% the same, 0.5 means 50% similar, etc.
- If you enter 0.0, it will flag the comments of any user who leaves more comments than the minimum_duplicates setting, regardless of how similar they are
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minimum_duplicates- The minimum number of duplicate/similar comments a single user must leave before they are flagged / counted as a match- When the threshold is reached, all of the users' comments will be flagged, not just the similar ones
- Duplicates are checked separately & after the regular filter mode has run
- The results are displayed at the same time as the rest of the results, but the match samples are separated
- If a commenter was already flagged by the regular filter mode, it wont be also displayed in the duplicate results
- Therefore the duplicate results show only users who did not match your filter criteria, but are still worth your attention
- It is a good way to spot spammers who may have gotten around the filter, but also be sure to check for false positives