Moderators can help hold and manage comments users leave on videos or the messages 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
Live chat
- Open the YouTube app .
- In the top-right corner, tap Search and enter the channel name to access the watch page.
- Select your Livestream to enter the Live Chat.
- Tap a message or comment, and select an action from the options that appear.
- If you’re a managing moderator, you can tap Settings to open the admin panel and select additional moderation actions.
There are two types of moderators: a standard moderator and managing moderator. A standard moderator can:
- Go to channel: You can learn about a live chat participant before taking a moderation action by going directly to their channel.
- Remove: 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 user in timeout: You can temporarily prevent someone from sending messages in live chat, ranging from 10 seconds up to 24 hours in the following intervals:
- 10 seconds
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 10 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 24 hours
When you put someone in time out, they can’t send messages during the selected time period.
- Hide user from this channel: When you hide someone from the channel, their chat messages and comments will no longer be visible to other viewers. YouTube doesn't tell the person that you've hidden them.
- Review potentially inappropriate messages: You can show or hide comments or messages that have been held based on your community settings.
A managing moderator can do the above, in addition to:
- Community default: You can turn on this feature to use technology to automatically detect spam, self-promotion, gibberish, and other potentially inappropriate content in comments. Learn more here.
- Turn Live Chat on/off: You can turn Live chat on or off at any time, even after the event has started.
- Participation mode: You can change participation modes in live chat by choosing subscriber only, members only, or live commentary.
- Message delay: You can limit how often each user can send a chat message by setting a time limit between messages.
- Blocked words: You can block live chat messages that contain or closely match certain words.
- Manage standard moderators: You can add and remove approved users.
Access Channel Activity from live chat feed:
You and moderators can access public user history from the live chat feed by clicking Channel Activity from the Menu. It will display:
- User’s public profile picture
- User’s public handle
- YouTube join date
- Number of subscribers of the user
- Public live chat messages (max 50 messages per stream)
It will also contain total counts of moderation actions taken against user in last year:
- Deleted messages
- Timeouts
- Hides
Live chat participants
In live chat, icons and colors are used to visually identify certain participants. More than 1 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 |