How to use moderation tools for live chat

Moderators can help hold and manage comments that users leave on videos or the messages that participants send during your stream's live chat. When creators add a moderator, they can choose whether they're a standard moderator or a managing moderator. Managing moderators have more options available to them than standard moderators

Learn more about comment moderation and live chat moderation. Moderators maintain their status until a creator removes them.

Live chat

1. Go to YouTube.com.
2. Click Search and enter the channel name or handle to access the watch page.
3. Select a live stream to enter the live chat.
4. Click anywhere on the message or 3-dot menu on the right side of the message section to select a moderation action.

As a moderator, you can:

Access channel activity: Before taking a moderation action, you can access a user's public channel user history from the live chat feed first.

Remove content: You can remove any inappropriate or potentially abusive or offensive content. When you delete a message, it's permanently removed from the live chat with any replies.

Put a user on timeout: You can temporarily prevent a user from sending messages in the live chat, ranging from 10 seconds to up to 24 hours in the following intervals:

• 10 seconds
• 1 minute
• 5 minutes
• 10 minutes
• 30 minutes
• 24 hours

Note: When you put a user on timeout, they can't send messages during the selected time period.

Hide a user: When you hide a user from your channel, their chat messages and comments will no longer be visible to other viewers. YouTube won't tell the user that you've hidden them.

Live chat participants

In live chat, icons and colours are used to visually identify certain participants. More than one icon can appear next to someone's username at a time.

Icon	Meaning
	Creator/channel owner
	Creator with a verified account
	Participant with a verified account
	Channel member
	Channel moderator