How to utilise moderation tools

A moderator is someone who a creator trusts to aid build a positive, safe channel experience for their community. A moderator helps to review and manage comments that people get out on a video or the messages that participants send during a stream's live chat.

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Using moderation tools

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

On your computer:

  • Hover your mouse over a message, and so click Menu ︙ to select an action, or
  • Hold downward the Control + Alt keys to intermission chat, and so hover over a message and select from the buttons that announced

What yous tin can moderate

Alive chat

Everyone who participates in a live chat can written report or block some other person. Moderators can:

  • Delete letters. Deleting is a fashion for you to remove whatsoever inappropriate or potentially calumniating or offensive content. When you lot delete a message, it's permanently removed from the live chat and its replay.
  • Put participants in timeout. Timeouts allow you lot to temporarily prevent someone from sending letters in alive chat. When you lot put someone in timeout, they won't be able to send letters for v minutes.
  • Hibernate people from the aqueduct. Hiding is often reserved for participants who ignore guidelines and warnings, and repeatedly send inappropriate messages. When you hide 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 letters. Creators might choose to get YouTube'due south system to concord potentially inappropriate chat messages for review. Moderators tin choose to bear witness or hide each message.

Tip: Moderators can learn most a live chat participant by going directly to their aqueduct.

  • On figurer: Hover over a message, click More and then Go to aqueduct.
  • On mobile: Tap a message, and and then Become to aqueduct.

Comments

Generally, anyone tin leave a annotate on a video. Moderators can:

  • Remove comments. This allows you to remove inappropriate or potentially abusive or offensive content. When you remove a comment, it volition appear in the creator's Held for review tab where they tin can replace, study or permanently delete it.

FAQ

Who can be a moderator?
Moderators are assigned by the channel owners. You can yet add your own comments, participate in live chat and enjoy YouTube as a viewer.

How long will I be a moderator for?
One time you lot're added every bit a moderator, you remain a moderator for the channel until the creator removes you.

What videos and live streams tin I moderate?
You're not but a moderator for a specific video or during the electric current live stream – you tin can assist moderate the comments for all videos and past and futurity live chats.

What do the dissimilar username icons and colours mean?
In live chat, icons and colours are used to visually place certain participants. More than i icon tin announced next to someone's username at a fourth dimension.

Icon Meaning
Creator/channel owner
Creator with a verified business relationship
Participant with a verified account
Channel member
Channel moderator

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