Review and reply to comments

 Moderating and interacting with comments is a groovy way to maintain a healthy customs on your channel.

Check comments on your videos and channel

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Comments.
  3. Choose the tab you lot'd like to review:
    • Published: Comments that anybody can encounter.
    • Held for review: Comments that are held for review based on your settings and comments that are automatically held by YouTube equally probable spam.

Y'all can employ the filter bar  at the top of each tab to filter the comments y'all encounter. You can filter past specific text in comments, by comments yous haven't responded to, past comments with questions, and more than.

Eligible creators volition meet "Comments & Mentions" in Studio on desktop. Learn more about mentions eligibility.

React to published comments

From the "Published" tab, you can:

Tip: To aid you apace larn more near who'south commenting, badges will show up next to commenters' names in YouTube Studio. For case, yous'll run across badges for top commenters , channel members and publicly subscribed commenters .

Take activeness on comments held for review

On the "Held for review" tab, you lot can have the following actions. You can besides discover these options on the "Published" tab by clicking More .

Add a comment moderator

You can invite moderators to aid manage comments on your videos and aqueduct. Anyone with a YouTube channel tin can be a moderator. To add a moderator:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Settings.
  3. Select Community.
  4. Enter the moderator'southward aqueduct URL in the "Moderators" box.
  5. Select Salve.

The moderator won't become a notification that yous've added them. Permit the moderator know that they tin can now remove comments.

FAQ

What can a annotate moderator practice?

A comment moderator can select Remove  next to a annotate on your video to hide the comment. The comment volition remain hidden until you review information technology in your "Held for review" queue. "Removed by Moderator" will show next to the annotate in your queue.

Moderators don't take access to your channel in YouTube Studio. The comment will be held for your review in your "Held for review" queue. Other viewers won't see the annotate unless you approve it.

How practice I remove a comment moderator?

Yous can manage your moderators past following the steps in a higher place to add a annotate moderator. Select Remove  side by side to moderators you'd like to remove.

Are viewers told when I heart, like, dislike, pivot, or reply to their annotate?

If you heart, pivot, or respond to a annotate, the commenter may go a notification that you responded, depending on their notification settings.

Likes and dislikes are bearding. If you similar a comment, the commenter may become a notification that says, "Someone liked your comment." Viewers don't get a notification when you dislike their comment.

How practice I unpin a comment?

If y'all pinned a annotate to the top of the picket page, but don't want it there anymore, you lot tin unpin it. Next to the comment, select More and thenUnpin.

You tin can besides pin a unlike annotate, which will unpin the previous 1.

What happens when I mark a comment as spam?

The comment volition be permanently subconscious from your channel. YouTube may also review the comment and commenter'due south beliefs for spam.

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