Moderate live chat

Moderating your live chat makes your community more welcoming and salubrious. YouTube gives you tools to assist foreclose harassment and make everyone feel safe.

How to Moderate Live Chat on YouTube

Before your live chat

Get set for your live conversation session by setting up these moderation tools. Some of these tools can be used during and afterward your live stream too.

Subscribers-only live conversation

If eligible, you can make live conversation only bachelor to your subscribers, and you lot tin specify how long viewers need to be subscribed. This setting tin can be changed before and during your live stream or Premiere.

When you turn on subscribers-merely conversation, your audience will be notified that it'southward turned on and how long they need to exist subscribed to send letters.

Slow mode and subscribers-simply chat tin be turned on at the same fourth dimension. Members-simply chat and subscribers-just chat can't exist turned on at the aforementioned time.

To turn on subscribers-only chat:

  1. Go to Live Command Room.
  2. From your alive stream, click Edit.
  3. Click Live conversation.
  4. Under "Who tin can transport a bulletin," select Subscribers.
  5. Optional: Choose how long viewers need to be subscribed before they tin can transport live conversation messages.
  6. Click Save.

Note: If a viewer participates in a subscriber-merely live chat, other viewers volition publicly see they're subscribed to the aqueduct.

Assign moderators

A moderator is someone you trust to assistance build a positive, rubber channel experience for your community. A moderator helps review and manage comments people leave on a video or the messages participants transport during a stream'due south live chat.

Once you assign a moderator, they'll stay a moderator until you unassign them, even if yous start some other live stream session.

We strongly recommend that you lot have at least one dedicated alive chat moderator for high-traffic events.

Everyone who participates in a live chat tin can report or block another person. Moderators can:

  • Delete letters. Deleting is a way for you to remove any inappropriate or potentially abusive or offensive content. When you delete a bulletin, information technology's permanently removed from the live chat and its replay.
  • Put participants in time out. Time outs allow yous to temporarily prevent someone from sending messages in live chat. When you put someone in time out, they won't be able to send messages for 5 minutes.
  • Hide people from the channel. Hiding is often reserved for participants who ignore guidelines and warnings, and repeatedly send inappropriate letters. When you hide someone from the channel, their chat letters and comments will no longer be visible to other viewers. YouTube doesn't notify the person that you lot've hidden them.

Review potentially inappropriate messages. Creators might choose to accept YouTube's system agree potentially inappropriate chat messages for review. Moderators can choose to show or hide each bulletin.

From YouTube Studio

  1. Open YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left, click Settings and then Customs.
  3. From the Automated Filters tab, click in the "Moderators" box.
  4. Blazon the name of the user you lot desire to make a moderator.
  5. Click Save.

From your live chat feed

Select menu next to the username in chat and select Add together moderator.

Block letters containing certain words

Hold potentially inappropriate live conversation messages for review

You lot can have YouTube hold potentially inappropriate live chat messages. If yous opt in, live chat messages that our system identifies will exist held for review in the chat feed. Yous have the final decision whether to show or hide these chat letters. No system is perfect, merely this feature can arrive easier for you to moderate live chat messages on your live stream.

Plough "hold for review" on or off

  1. Go to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left, tap Settings and then Community and then Defaults.
  3. Nether "Letters in your live chat," cheque or uncheck Hold potentially inappropriate conversation messages for review.

Once y'all've turned on "hold for review," you tin can hide or show messages that YouTube holds.

  • If yous select SHOW: chat letters are displayed in the chat stream at the original time they were entered.
  • If you select HIDE: chat messages remain hidden from viewers.
  • If you lot accept no action: chat messages remain hidden from viewers.

Slow fashion

Tiresome manner allows you to limit how often each user can comment by setting a time limit betwixt comments. The aqueduct possessor, moderators, and YouTube channel members are not limited.

Turn on in Live Control Room and then Streaming

  1. Create a live stream.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Click Customization.
  4. Under "Bulletin filibuster," check Slow way. Enter how long y'all desire participants to wait between sending messages.

Members-only live chat

Yous tin can agree live chats that are exclusively for your members. To turn on members-but alive chat on your reckoner:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. At the top right, click CREATE and then Become live .
  3. From the left, click Stream.
  4. Create a stream:
    1. To copy a previous stream: Select a previous stream and click Reuse settings.
    2. To create a new stream: Enter your stream's info and click Create stream.
  5. From the superlative right, click Edit.
  6. Under "Live chat," select Enable members-only chat.
  7. Click Save.

Plow Live chat on or off

You tin turn Live conversation on or off at whatever time, even afterward the event has started.

From the pinnacle right, click Edit and then Live Chat and then Enable live chat.

During your live chat

Moderate messages & viewers from the alive chat feed

On desktop, concur down 'ALT' / 'Option' on your keyboard to interruption the chat feed and point to messages. You'll see options to:

  • Delete the message.
  • Place the user in fourth dimension out.
  • Hide the user from the chat message feed or comments section on your channel.

 Tip: Moderators can larn about a live conversation participant by going directly to their channel.

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

Hibernate or unhide a viewer from live chat

Hiding is oftentimes reserved for participants who ignore guidelines and warnings, and repeatedly transport inappropriate messages. When you hide someone from the aqueduct, their chat messages and comments volition no longer be visible to other viewers. YouTube doesn't notify the person that you've subconscious them.

From the live chat feed

  1. From the live chat feed, find a message from the viewer that you lot want to hide.
  2. Next to the message, click More and then Hide user.

From YouTube Studio

  1. Open YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left, click Settings and then Customs.
  3. From the Automatic Filters tab and then "Hidden users," blazon the name of the viewer you desire to hide.
  4. To unhide a viewer, click the X next to their proper name. They can now go out comments and alive chat messages on your channel.
  5. Click Relieve.

Note: This volition likewise hide the user from the comments. Users you accept hidden volition exist visible in Hidden Users in Community Settings.

Later on your live chat

Alive chat replay

Subsequently a live stream has ended, Live conversation replay is available on all stream archives. This replays the chat aslope the stream exactly as information technology appeared when the stream was live. Alive chat replay is turned on by default on all of your live streams.

To disable Alive chat replay

  1. Go to youtube.com/my_videos.
  2. Click the Alive tab.
  3. Select a video.
  4. Click the More options tab.
  5. Deselect the box side by side to "Permit Live chat replay."

View or delete your Live conversation history

You can view Live chats y'all've participated in during YouTube alive streams.

  1. Become to History.
  2. On the right of the page, click Alive conversation.
  3. Coil down and notice the live chat message. To delete it, hover over information technology and click X.

If you have sponsored chats or Super Chats, you can run into them besides.

Note: Deleting a Super Chat message post-alive stream will not result in a refund.

Note: Based on user reports, YouTube may disable Live conversation on your video if the content of your stream or Live chat is found to be violating our Customs Guidelines.

See comments after your stream has concluded

Alive chat isn't available afterwards you live stream ends, but comments will evidence upwards below the video histrion.

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