Moderate comments on your channel
If other YouTube users can post comments on your videos or channel, you can use tools to moderate or remove those comments.
Take action on comments
Remove, report or hide commentsWhen someone comments on your video, you'll get a notification. Click the arrow in the top right-hand corner of the comment to manage comments:
- Remove: Take down the comment and replies from YouTube.
- Report spam or abuse: Report comments that you believe are spam or abuse to the YouTube team.
- Hide from channel: Block the user from posting comments on videos on your channel. If you change your mind, you can remove the user from the hidden users list in your community settings.
If someone leaves a comment that looks like spam, you'll see a blue banner on the channel or video. You can review, approve or delete these comments.
Go to Creator Studio > Community > Comments or
youtube.com/comments and look under the Likely spam tab.
You can require that all new comments get approved before they're posted to your video or channel.
Video comments
- Find the video in the Video Manager.
- Under the video, click Edit.
- Click Advanced Settings.
- Under "Allow comments", select Approved.
Channel comments
Follow the instructions to turn this on for your channel in your Channel Navigation settings.
You can change the default view of comments for individual videos that you upload. Choose Newest first if you prefer comments to appear sorted by time, or select Top comments to have comments ranked algorithmically.
- Upload a new video or edit one of your existing videos.
- Open the Advanced Settings tab in Info and Settings on your video.
- Under the 'Comments' area you will see the 'Sort by' option with a drop-down menu.
- Use this drop-down to set the default view for this video to either Newest first or Top comments.
- Save your changes.
