Review & 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 & 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 you see. You can filter by search, questions, response status and more.

Eligible creators will see "Comments & 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  beneath 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 show up 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 show 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.

Comment topics

Comment topics use artificial intelligence (AI) to organize and summarize 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 .

FAQ

What can a comment moderator do?

How do I remove a comment moderator?

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

How do I unpin a comment?

If you 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?