How To Enable the Comments On Youtube
Comments are a great way to engage with your audience and get feedback on your videos, Well In this article, you will learn about how to enable comments on youtube videos , and also will see all the comment settings for videos in youtube, By the end of this post, you’ll be able to turn on comments on Youtube videos by yourself.
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Comment settings for videos
Comments are a great way to engage with your audience and get feedback on your videos. Lets see comment settings for videos in youtube.
Lets Have a look at comment settings for individual videos:
- Allow all comments
- Hold potentially inappropriate comments for review
- Hold all comments for review
- Disable comments
Allow All Comments
- You can allow all comments to be visible in your comment section, All comments left on your video are immediately visible. You can view these comments on your Comments page, under the “Published” tab.
- Viewers can still report inappropriate comments and spam. Comments that violate youtube Community Guidelines may be removed.
- Comments that are likely spam may be automatically held for review in YouTube Studio for up to 60 days.
Hold potentially inappropriate comments for review
Potentially inappropriate comments are held for review on your Comments page in YouTube Studio, under the “Held for review” tab for up to 60 days. You can view these comments from YouTube Studio, not the watch page.
These comments are not publicly visible, unless you approve them to be shown, If you want to increase the protection more, turn on Increase strictness to hold more potentially inappropriate comments under the “Held for review” tab.
To increase strictness of potentially inappropriate comment moderation across your channel, follow the below steps :
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- From the left menu, select Settings.
- Select Community > Defaults.
- Choose Hold Potentially Inappropriate Comments for Review
select Increase strictness.
- Select Save.
Hold all comments for review
All comments must be manually approved before they can show. Comments can be reviewed on your Comments page, under the “Held for review” tab for up to 60 days.How to Review and Reply to comments.
Disable comments
If you turn off comments for your video, viewers can’t comment. “Comments are disabled for this video. Learn more.” will show beneath your video.
Channel level comment settings
Lets Have a look at Channel level comment settings in youtube :
- Hidden users
- Blocked words
- Block comments with links
- Default comment settings
- Channel homepage comment settings
Hidden users
You can choose to hide comments from specific commenters across all videos on your channel.
Learn how to hide comments from a specific channel.
Blocked words
You can add a list of words and phrases that you don’t want to show in comments to your blocked words lists.
Comments containing or closely matching these terms may be held for review for up to 60 days, unless they’re from someone on your approved user list. Live chat messages containing or closely matching these terms will also be blocked.
Comments with blocked words can be reviewed and approved on your Comments page, under the “Held for review” tab.
To add to your blocked words lists:
- Open YouTube Studio.
- From the left, click Settings > Community.
- Under the “Automated Filters” tab, scroll to “Blocked words.”
- Add words and phrases separated by commas.
- Select SAVE.
Note: Blocked words also cannot be used when creating clips of your videos and live streams.
Block comments with links
You can hold comments that contain URLs for review. Here’s how:
- Open YouTube Studio.
- From the left, click Settings > Community.
- Under the “Automated Filters” tab, select Block links.
Comments with links aren’t blocked if they’re posted by you, moderators, or approved users.Live chat messages with URLs are also blocked.Comments with hashtags and links can be reviewed and approved on your Comments page, under the “Held for review” tab for up to 60 days.
Default comment settings
You can apply the same comment setting to all new video uploads. Changing your default settings for new video uploads will not impact existing videos.
Channel homepage comment settings
You can change your setting for new comments on the Community tab of your channel.
Learn how to change your comment settings.
How To Enable Comments On Youtube Videos :
Interacting with your audience in the comments will help you grow a community and thus grow your channel faster. For this reason, it’s important to know how to turn on comments for YouTube videos.
You have two options when it comes to turning on comments on videos.
- You can enable comments by default for all videos.
- You can enable/disable comments on individual videos.
How to enable comments on Youtube Videos by default :
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- From the left menu, select Settings.
- Select Community and then Defaults.
- Select your default settings:
– If you have the Community tab: Choose your default settings under “Comments on your channel.”
– If you don’t have the Community tab: Choose your default setting for new video uploads under “Comments on your new videos.” - Select Save
How to turn on/off comments for an individual video
If you don’t want people to comment under a particular video, change comment settings on your content page. The same applies if you want to turn on comments for selected videos.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- From the left menu, select Content.
- Click a video’s thumbnail.
- Scroll down and then click SHOW MORE.
- Under “Comments and ratings,” choose your comment settings.
- Click Save.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below.
