Acquire virtually comment settings

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

Annotate settings for videos

The following annotate settings can be used for individual videos.

Let all comments

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

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

Hold potentially inappropriate comments for review

Potentially inappropriate comments are held for review on your Comments page, under the "Held for review" tab for upward to threescore days. You can view these comments from YouTube Studio, non the watch page.

At the bottom of the tab, y'all may see a link to "Show hidden comments." Click it to view potentially hurtful comments that are automatically held for review.

YouTube can hold potentially inappropriate comments for review in over 100 languages.

YouTube'southward system works to find potentially inappropriate comments, just it's not always correct. As you lot review comments, the arrangement gets ameliorate at finding comments to hold for review.

If y'all want an fifty-fifty college level of protection, select Increase strictness to hold more potentially inappropriate comments under the "Held for review" tab. Choosing to turn on this setting will apply a stricter threshold when detecting potentially inappropriate content in comments beyond your channel.

Tip: If there 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 can show. Comments can be reviewed on your Comments page, under the "Held for review" tab for upwardly to threescore days.

Disable comments

If you turn off comments for your video, viewers tin't comment. "Comments are disabled for this video. Learn more." will bear witness beneath your video.

Channel level annotate settings

Hidden users

Yous can cull to hide comments from specific commenters across all videos on your channel.

Blocked words

Y'all tin can add a list 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 60 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 can exist reviewed and approved on your Comments folio, under the "Held for review" tab.

To add to your blocked words lists:

  1. Open YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left, click Settingsand thenCommunity.
  3. Under the "Automated Filters" tab, scroll to "Blocked words."
  4. Add together words and phrases separated by commas.
  5. Select SAVE.

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

Block comments with links

You can hold comments that contain URLs for review. Hither'due south how:

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

Comments with links won't be blocked if they're posted past you, moderators, or approved users.

Live chat messages with URLs are also blocked.

Comments with hashtags and links can exist reviewed and approved on your Comments folio, under the "Held for review" tab for upwardly to sixty days.

Default comment settings

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

Channel homepage comment settings

FAQ about comment settings

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

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

Note: Changes to your comment settings only employ to new videos.

Can I review comments from subconscious users?

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

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

Yes. Comments with blocked words or links can be reviewed and approved on your Comments page, nether the "Held for review" tab for up to threescore days.

If I turn comments off and dorsum on once more, practise my old comments come back?

Yes. If you turn comments off and back on once again, existing comments volition reappear.

If you turn off comments, existing comments can't be seen on the watch page or in YouTube Studio.

If I change my settings, are existing comments impacted?

Existing comments may be afflicted by changes you brand to your annotate settings. For instance, adding new terms to your blocked words list will agree all existing and future comments containing or closely matching these words for review.

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