Acquire most comment settings

You can choose to hold some comments for review earlier they're shown on your video or channel. Learn how to change your comment settings.

Comment settings for videos

The post-obit annotate settings can be used for individual videos.

Allow all comments

All comments left on your video are immediately visible. You can view these comments on your Comments folio, under the "Published" tab.

Viewers can still report inappropriate comments and spam. Comments that violate our Community Guidelines may be removed. Comments that are probable spam may be automatically held for review in YouTube Studio for upwards to 60 days.

Concur potentially inappropriate comments for review

Potentially inappropriate comments are held for review on your Comments folio in YouTube Studio, under the "Held for review" tab for upward to 60 days. You can view these comments from YouTube Studio, not the sentry page.

  • These comments are not publicly visible, unless y'all approve them to be shown.
  • YouTube can hold potentially inappropriate comments for review in over 100 languages.

If you want an even higher level of protection, turn on Increase strictness to hold more potentially inappropriate comments nether the "Held for review" tab. To increase strictness of potentially inappropriate annotate moderation across your channel:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Settings.
  3. Select Community and then Defaults.
  4. Choose Hold Potentially Inappropriate Comments for Review and then select Increase strictness.
  5. Select Salvage.

Choosing to turn on this setting volition use a stricter threshold when detecting potentially inappropriate content in comments across your channel.

Tip: If in that location are more than words or phrases you desire to agree for review, add them to your blocked words listing.

Hold all comments for review

All comments must be manually approved before they tin can show. Comments can exist reviewed on your Comments page, nether the "Held for review" tab for up to lx days.

Disable comments

If you turn off comments for your video, viewers can't comment. "Comments are disabled for this video. Learn more." volition show beneath your video.

Channel level comment settings

Hidden users

You can choose to hide comments from specific commenters beyond all videos on your channel.

Blocked words

You can add a listing of words and phrases that you don't want to show in comments to your blocked words lists.

Comments containing or closely matching these terms may exist held for review for up to threescore days, unless they're from someone on your canonical user list. Live chat messages containing or closely matching these terms will also exist blocked.

Comments with blocked words tin can exist reviewed and canonical on your Comments folio, nether the "Held for review" tab.

To add to your blocked words lists:

  1. Open YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left, click Settings and then Community.
  3. Under the "Automated Filters" tab, curlicue to "Blocked words."
  4. Add words and phrases separated by commas.
  5. Select Relieve.

Note: Clips of your content that apply a blocked word aren't created and cannot be shared. Learn more than.

Block comments with links

You can concur comments that contain URLs for review. Here'due south how:

  1. Open YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left, click Settings and then Community.
  3. Under the "Automated Filters" tab, select Block links.

Comments with links aren't blocked if they're posted by y'all, moderators, or approved users.

Live chat messages with URLs are too blocked.

Comments with hashtags and links tin can be reviewed and canonical on your Comments folio, under the "Held for review" tab for up to 60 days.

Default annotate settings

You can utilise the same comment setting to all new video uploads. Changing your default settings for new video uploads will not touch existing videos.

Channel homepage annotate settings

FAQ about comment settings

Can I cake certain words, links, or users from one specific video?

No. Hidden users, blocked words, and link blocking automatically use to all videos and to your channel homepage. Changes to your settings may too apply to new and existing videos.

Note: Changes to your comment settings just apply to new videos.

Tin I review comments from hidden users?

No. Comments from hidden users don't show in YouTube Studio.

Tin can I review comments that are blocked for specific words or links?

Yeah. Comments with blocked words or links can be reviewed and approved on your Comments page, under the "Held for review" tab for upwardly to 60 days.

If I plough comments off and back on again, do my sometime comments come back?

Aye. If you turn comments off and back on again, existing comments will reappear.

If you turn off comments, existing comments tin't exist seen on the watch folio or in YouTube Studio.

If I change my settings, are existing comments impacted?

Existing comments may be affected by changes you make to your annotate settings. For example, adding new terms to your blocked words list volition hold all existing and future comments containing or closely matching these words for review.

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