General Guidelines for all my Public Facing Channels(YouTube, Instagram, Reddit and any other that might come later)
Spam/Scam/Promotions/Abuse will incur a lifetime ban on all channels. It is final
and irreversible.
I stopped replying to comments and started focussing on creation
I have limited time. I could either create something or reply to comments, I chose creation. I used to do all that and even replied to all comments until 21st Dec 2025 7PM.
That's when I reflected and looked back at my youtube journey and realized the time I have spent replying to comments would have better spent in working either on the website or the next video which would help a lot more people than a reply to a comment ever could.
Also, 95% of the comments are simply asking the same stuff I already explained in the video or are asking me to be free tech support service(which I already stopped long time ago) or make a purchase decision for them which they should have made by themselves.
The last 5% of the comments were genuienly lovely and insightful or horrible and helped me feel a bit good about the work I was doing but I have to stop expecting that because what I learnt when I opened up to talk about the real insightful stuff, most people become uncomfortable and want to waste my time trying to fight me.
I know people in the past who are great with words and twisting circumstances to make you feel pathetic and then they feed off of that feeling like dementors.
My ex was a dementor, she would suck all the happiness and life out of me and then when she saw me beaten down feeling terrible about myself, would feel great. Some people are like that, they feed off of your misery.
Note: This also is being extended to Instagram, Reddit and all public forums I had because all of them started to have the same problems.
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Future Plans for Channel:
Focus on as much laptop purchase guidance videos as possible. Everything else can take a back seat.
If we ever get more than livable income, purchase the products to do proper reviews for them since they don't usually exist.
Since I follow ethics, I will never do giveaway but I will select a few kids possibly in college to test some less talked about laptops as I can't possibly test them out in the real world.
Note: They will not be random, I already have a list of people on youtube and instagram who I can actually trust. Putting someone at random will have the same effect of a giveaway where my channel will be flooded with bot accounts made by someone who thinks he is smart and he will most likely win it.
Become an ethical hacker if you're that smart, not an actual hacker.
I guess the main goal is to either manufacture or import tech products and then sell them to the public in India just like many Chinese people do.
Major Changes over years
Stopped talking about deals/credit card cashbacks/rebates in all
future videos→ Aug 2025
My main focus will be laptop research regardless of the price. "Purchase Decision" Videos will be the main
focus from now on.
The laptop research requires hard work for many hours and hence I have also removed tech help from contact
pages and updated youtube comment guidelines that these tech help comments will be deleted. Since tech purchase
help is already a paid thing, those will also be removed.
Already fixed the sheet to show the retail/offline prices and the last few videos, I changed the details to
reflect the same.
Why?
I love researching: For the past few days all I have done is researched laptops for
blogs and then videos and the reception has been great. Your comments and watchtime tell the real story. Since I
never ask for likes, shares or subs and never will, I can't expect those numbers to increase. And I want to
continue doing that. That's the main thing.
People buying offline won't feel left out: Most people still buy offline. When they see
a value lower than what they can get offline, they feel terrible about not being able to get it for the same
price offline. For years my DMs and comments have been filled with people asking will they get the same offers
offline. Those who chose to buy online and chose to use the extra savings that is now visible on the excel
sheet in red color and on the laptop site at the bottom page will still get those benefits. But now the values
will be the worst case values. If you save extra money, it will be a bonus over it.
It's hard for new people to trust me, trust which is required for the 7% coupons and rebates and even
credit card cashbacks: Even though I have streamlined the rebate and the 7% discount coupon
process so you don't need to ask me anything at all, you just pay or use the process and get what you want, my
comments and DMs are still filled with people, mainly people who can't trust me because they just found this
channel today. Rebates and Coupons require a level of trust that they don't want to. I just expected
that the process although complex is understandable and many people who used it have confirmed this. It is very
easy to follow although it might look intimidating. I even made videos in hindi and english to explain all this
(unlisted though linked on site). But people still don't want to pay or use links of a handsome looking dude
on the internet because he doesn't look flamboyant and doesn't edit videos with epileptic seizure level
effects.
Other brands now get a chance: Removing all these extra savings from Lenovo Laptops will
give other brands a chance to even be compared to. Before today, people kept complaining about why I don't
check other brands, although not true (I have researched laptops that I expected to fall in price or were hugely
discounted) it was rare. I am going to review all brands in a certain non-discounted price range and compare
against them.
It is soul crushing to keep checking account balance: It is a horrible experience
expecting donations, affiliates or payments in the middle of the night when can't
sleep because of how little I am making. Removing all this removes any
expectations from my head that I will ever make money off of links and donations and even tech helps and then I
can focus on actually testing if youtube should be my full time thing or should I quit it. Right now due to a
few payments everyday I get little ray of hope everytime someone pays that I might be able to do it full time
but removing all this removes all hope of it and clears away the fog for that tough decision: Should I just quit
YouTube.
The only thing that troubles me a little is that many many people will now miss out on these extra savings, which, I
am learning to live with, because the amount of hours I have spent trying to show the difference of online and
offline and then convincing them to SAVE money has really been too much.
Those who are smart enough will find it without my hand-holding and I am glad to let those people go.
Since the focus now shifts to actual laptop research, I believe they will feel at much more ease knowing the good
and bad of what they are buying in the first place and not worry about a few thousand savings.
I know this will remove a large amount of people from this channel which is fine because I don't want to be known as
the "Lenovo Deal" guy. This channel is not Making Deals Friendly, it's Making Tech
Friendly.
The whole point is I spent hours trying to find a complex tech thing and then explain it to a non-tech person. That
was always the motto of this channel.
And if I am being honest the amazing reception of the last laptop research video has been truly emotional and happy .
Don't remember exact dates but here are the others:
Stopped doing free tech purchase help.
Stopped doing free tech help via youtube comments and asking people to share stuff on their channels.
Stopped doing free tech help via Discord for people who bought laptop with me.
Stopped doing free tech help via Discord for everyone.
I have limited time. I could either create something or reply to comments, I chose creation.
I try to reply to all comments apart from these:
1) Comments I never see due to youtube's strict policy and includes comments with hashtags and links(unintentional ones also like missing a.space which looks like a link to youtube).
2) Rare very long comments that I only see when they are held for review. Even after approving them, they never show up in main tab for me to reply to. I have seen this happen twice recently.
Please re-comment with removing some complex words or links and it might show up this time(We can only guess why they not show up).
3) Comments not following channel guidelines.
This also includes abuse, spam and scams. I welcome criticism and people questioning my judgement, that's what the channel has been about but I am very very strict about abuse, spam and scams. If youtube doesn't automatically block such account, I do it for them and once you're blocked on this channel, you're blocked forever.
I should point a few other people blocked in this category and will be blocked later:
Irritating everyone with similar comments every so often.
There are a few people who have made it their life's mission to spam all my content and even other people's comments with irritating questions or comments again and again.
This includes people who keep asking me to take one particular video down and they think they can do that by repeatedly spamming the same video?
Also, someone who literally wanted me to share a few contacts from my phone because I happen to know a few people in a village he was visiting and in return he will get me 10 subscribers. Technically they fall under spams but I thought I should point this out.
I have a list of 14 accounts which fall under this category. I never see your comments, maybe others do, I don't know how blocking works on youtube but we are done forever. I made the mistake of unblocking and seeing repeat behavior and was sick of them.
4) In very rare of cases like I have seen with Apna Madhur and Apna Anuj that if they use on of their accounts to comment on my channel they never show up to me even though they show up to other people on the channel.
This happens on accounts that have received a lot of reports from other channels even before they have commented even once on my channel.
6) Replies to my comments I don't do at all. I try to cover as much as I can and avoid asking questions in comments because I have purposely turned off replies to my replies to a comment because if I enable it, it will become a full time job for me without pay.
Apart from these there are a few comments which sometimes require a full investigation of weeks to months which I keep unreplied until I am done with it like a 4 week old comment asking for a laptop review which I can't reply unless I am done with that review or find the laptop unfit for review because I won't recommend laptop. These are not deleted but just takes a long time for reply.
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Why haven't you replied to my comment for MakingTechFriendly India?
I used to reply to all comments on Instagram and YouTube and it was such a horrible work ethic that I got sick and very very weak to be unable to visit a Doctor myself because I forgot to take balanced diet and Dee had to fly over from Bangalore to get me to a Doctor. That's when I laid some ground rules like below.
Main thing was I started to make more videos and write more detailed blog so that you don't even need to comment in the first place and that's been my goal ever since.
I try to reply to all comments apart from these:
1) Comments I never see due to youtube's strict policy and includes comments with hashtags and links(unintentional ones also like missing a.space which looks like a link to youtube)
(My moderation is set to zero apart from catching coupon/discount/affiliate talks that I already moved to Instagram) months ago and I never talk about coupons/discounts/extra savings on YouTube since Aug-2025.
2) Rare very long comments that I only see when they are held for review. Even after approving them, they never show up in main tab for me to reply to. I have seen this happen twice recently.
Please re-comment with removing some complex words or links and it might show up this time(We can only guess why they not show up).
3) Comments not following channel guidelines which include tech help(I don't do tech help at all anymore).
This also includes abuse, spam and scams. I welcome criticism and people questioning my judgement, that's what the channel has been about but I am very very strict about abuse, spam and scams. If youtube doesn't automatically block such account, I do it for them and once you're blocked on this channel, you're blocked forever.
I should point a few other people blocked in this category and will be blocked later:
3a) Lying pieces of bastards: There is one person who is blocked because he lied to me about his LOQ and wasted months of my time to get a replacement my making shit up about the laptop only for me to find out months later that he just wanted a MacBook to impress other people because he has a pathetic personality. I was so furious and I decided never again. You lie to my face, we are done.
3b) Irritating everyone with similar comments every so often.
There are a few people who got any number of laptops that I strongly recommended against and now have made it their life's mission to spam all my content and even other people's comments with irritating questions again and again. Technically they fall under spams but I thought I should point this out.
I have a list of 23 accounts who fall under this category. I never see your comments, maybe others do, I don't know how blocking works on youtube but we are done forever. I made the mistake of unblocking and seeing repeat behavior and was sick of them.
4) Already covered questions in mega blogs: "Not specific questions like I ordered this day, it's this this, when can I expect it. I delete such questions but in general stuff like the ones above. " https://ni6hant.com/tech/mega-blogs/lenovo/#before or those that don't follow guidelines.
5) In very rare of cases like I have seen with Apna Madhur and Apna Anuj that if they use on of their accounts to comment on my channel they never show up to me even though they show up to other people on the channel.
This happens on accounts that have received a lot of reports from other channels even before they have commented even once on my channel.
6) Replies to my comments I don't do at all. I try to cover as much as I can and avoid asking questions in comments because I have purposely turned off replies to my replies to a comment because if I enable it, it will become a full time job for me without pay.
Apart from these there are a few comments which sometimes require a full investigation of weeks to months which I keep unreplied until I am done with it like a 4 week old comment asking for a laptop review which I can't reply unless I am done with that review or find the laptop unfit for review because I won't recommend laptop. These are not deleted but just takes a long time for reply.
. Removing all this removes any
expectations from my head that I will ever make money off of links and donations and even tech helps and then I
can focus on actually testing if youtube should be my full time thing or should I quit it. Right now due to a
few payments everyday I get little ray of hope everytime someone pays that I might be able to do it full time
but removing all this removes all hope of it and clears away the fog for that tough decision: Should I just quit
YouTube.
.