Learn about comment settings

Selecting Basic comment moderation will hold comments in YouTube Studio that may be spam, self-promotion, gibberish, or potentially inappropriate. These comments will only be published if you approve them.

If you want a higher level of protection for your channel, selecting Strict comment moderation will increase the number of comments held.

Since these settings use AI to detect comments that should be held, they may not always get it right. Channel owners can choose to either ignore, remove, or approve the comments that appear on their videos.

You can share feedback directly in the product when reviewing comments in YouTube Studio by selecting Send feedback.

The accuracy and number of comments found by these settings may change as we work to improve our systems over time.