How to utilize moderation tools

A moderator is someone a creator trusts to help build a positive, safety aqueduct experience for their community. A moderator helps review and manage comments people get out on a video or the messages participants transport during a stream's live conversation.

Want to choose moderation settings for your channel? Learn more than.

Using moderation tools

On your phone or tablet: Tap a message and select an action from the options that appear.

On your computer:

  • Hover your mouse over a message, so click Carte︙ to select an action, or
  • Concur downwards the Control + Alt keys to pause chat, so hover over a message and select from the buttons that appear

What you can moderate

Live chat

Everyone who participates in a alive chat tin can study or block another person. Moderators can:

  • Delete messages. Deleting is a way for yous to remove any inappropriate or potentially calumniating or offensive content. When you delete a message, it'due south permanently removed from the live chat and its replay.
  • Put participants in fourth dimension out. Time outs allow y'all to temporarily preclude someone from sending letters in live chat. When yous put someone in time out, they won't be able to ship messages for five minutes.
  • Hide people from the channel. Hiding is frequently reserved for participants who ignore guidelines and warnings, and repeatedly send inappropriate messages. When yous hibernate someone from the channel, their chat messages and comments will no longer be visible to other viewers. YouTube doesn't notify the person that you've subconscious them.
  • Review potentially inappropriate messages. Creators might choose to have YouTube's system agree potentially inappropriate chat letters for review. Moderators can cull to testify or hide each message.

Tip: Moderators tin can learn well-nigh a live chat participant by going directly to their channel.

  • On computer: Hover over a message, click More , and then Go to channel.
  • On mobile: Tap a message, and then Get to channel.

Comments

By and large, anyone tin can leave a comment on a video. Moderators can:

  • Remove comments. This allows you to remove inappropriate or potentially calumniating or offensive content. When you remove a annotate, it will appear in the creator's "Held for review" tab where they can supplant, report, or permanently delete it.

FAQs

Who tin can be a moderator?
Moderators are assigned by the channel owners. You can still add together your own comments, participate in alive chat, and savor YouTube as a viewer.

How long will I exist a moderator?
In one case you're added equally a moderator, y'all remain a moderator for the channel until the creator removes you.

What videos and live streams can I moderate?
You're not just a moderator for a specific video or during the current live stream—you can aid moderate the comments for all videos and past and future live chats.

What practise the different username icons and colors hateful?
In alive chat, icons and colors are used to visually identify certain participants. More than ane icon can announced next to someone's username at a time.

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Creator / aqueduct owner
Creator with a verified account
Participant with a verified business relationship
Channel member
Channel moderator

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