I saw these two comments on YouTube:

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This is not my first time that I saw totally legit comments being marked as marks. In fact, the act of marking legit comment as spam is not legitimate at all, but a behavior of abuse when there is a Thumbs-Down option to use. Well, even there was no such option, you still should not be marking with twisted intention.

Everyone has their own right to express, so are these two commentators. Although the second comment clearly was written with lack of good manner, which I definitely would give a thumbs-down for the words, not for the opinion.

Unfortunately, [Not Spam] doesn’t seem to work, I clicked and it did nothing apparently. Maybe that only works for video uploader?

I don’t know how many have actually used [Flag for spam] to hide comments they don’t like, but this kind of behavior is purely sad, it tells me that people can’t stand other’s judgments or critics. If you don’t like, use [Thumbs-Down], don’t abuse the system. Enough down-votes can also get a comment hidden, if that’s only what they are looking for.

I must say people who abuse this way is as bad as people who don’t have good manner on Internet in my view, if not worse.