Review and reply to comments

 Moderating and interacting with comments is a great way to maintain a healthy community on your channel.

Check comments on your videos and channel

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Comments.
3. Choose the tab that you'd like to review:
   • Published: Comments that everyone can see.
   • Held for review: Comments that are held for review based on your settings, and comments that are automatically held by YouTube as likely spam.

You can use the filter bar  at the top of each tab to filter the comments that you see. You can filter by search, questions, response status and more.

Eligible creators will see 'Comments and mentions' in Studio on their computer. Learn more about mentions eligibility.

React to published comments

From the 'Published' tab, you can:

• Reply: Select Reply to respond to a comment directly.
• Heart: Select the heart  under a comment to show appreciation.
• Like: Select thumbs up  to like a comment.
• Dislike: Select thumbs down  to dislike a comment.
• Pin: Select More   Pin to highlight a comment at the top of your video's watch page. This option only appears when viewing comments for an individual video.

Tip: To help you learn more about who's commenting, badges will appear next to commenters' names in YouTube Studio. For example, there are badges for top commenters , channel members and publicly subscribed commenters .

Take action on comments held for review

On the 'Held for review' tab, you can take the following actions. You can also find these options on the 'Published' tab by clicking More .

• Approve: Select Approve  to allow a comment to be shown publicly.
• Remove: Select Remove  to remove a comment.
• Report spam or abuse: Select Report  to report spam or abuse in a comment. Learn more about spam comments.
• Hide user:  Select hide  to hide user from channel.​ Learn more about hiding comments from specific people.
• Always approve: This option is only available on the 'Published' tab. To allow all future comments from a certain viewer to be automatically approved and publicly visible, select More   Always approve comments from this user.

Add a comment moderator

You can invite moderators to help manage comments on your videos and channel. Anyone with a YouTube channel can be a moderator. To add a moderator on YouTube Studio:

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Settings.
3. Select Community.
4. Enter the moderator's channel URL in the 'Standard moderators' box.
5. Select Save.

You can also add a specific moderator from their video comment:

1. In the YouTube app, find a comment under one of your videos from someone you'd like to make a moderator. 
2. Tap More  beside their comment. 
3. Tap Add as moderator. 
4. Select Managing moderator or Standard moderator.

The moderator won't get a notification that you've added them. Let the moderator know that they can now remove comments.

Get creator tips to build community with comments.

Comment topics

Comment topics use artificial intelligence (AI) to organise and summarise comments on YouTube videos. With this info, you can learn what's of interest to your community, more easily join discussions and get inspiration for new videos. 

To review comment topics, go to the comments section of a video on the YouTube mobile app. If available, tap Topics .

Note: This feature won't appear on all videos. At the moment, comment topics are only available on large comment sections in the YouTube mobile app for videos and comments in English. 

Topics are summarised by AI and not humans, so quality and accuracy may vary.

FAQ

What can a comment moderator do?

The actions that a comment moderator can take depend on whether they are a standard moderator or a managing moderator. Managing moderators have more options available to them than standard moderators. Both types of moderators can hold comments for your review.

Moderators don't have access to your channel in YouTube Studio. The comment will be held for your review in your 'Held for review' queue. Other viewers won't see the comment unless you approve it.

Learn more about what comment moderators can do.

Comment moderation works differently on live chat. Learn how to assign moderators for live chats.

How do I remove a comment moderator?

You can manage your moderators by following the steps above to add a comment moderator, then select the removal option.

Are viewers told when I heart, like, dislike, pin or reply to their comment?

If you heart, pin or reply to a comment, the commenter may get a notification that you have responded, depending on their notification settings.

Likes and dislikes are anonymous. If you like a comment, the commenter may get a notification that says 'Someone liked your comment'. Viewers don't get a notification when you dislike their comment.

How do I unpin a comment?

If you've pinned a comment to the top of the watch page but don't want it there anymore, you can unpin it. Next to the comment, select More   Unpin.

You can also pin a different comment, which will unpin the previous one.

What happens when I mark a comment as spam?

The comment will be permanently hidden from your channel. YouTube may also review the comment and commenter's behaviour for spam.

How are comment topics summarised, and can I moderate them?

Comment topics use Google-owned AI models to organise and summarise comments, without human review, on YouTube videos with large comment sections. Topics are only created when there are enough comments to represent a theme. 

There isn't an option to opt out of comment topics. If you remove the comments that appear under a specific topic, the topic will be removed. 

Topics won't be created from comments that are held for review, contain blocked words or are from hidden users. 

To give feedback on comment topics: 

1. Open the comments section of a video on the YouTube app.
2. Tap Topics .
3. Tap More .
4. Tap Send feedback.

Learn more about how to report a comment topic for legal reasons.