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YouTube Comments: Replying, filtering, & moderating

If a video's possessor has turned on comments, you lot can post comments and like, dislike, or respond to other people'south comments on a video. You can also edit or delete any of your own comments. Replies to a comment are threaded beneath the original comment so you tin can follow the chat.

Post comments on a video

Public videos

All comments on public videos on YouTube are public and anyone can respond to a annotate that y'all postal service. If you're a Google Apps business relationship user, any annotate yous postal service on YouTube is publicly visible to users outside of your domain.

To add a comment

  1. Discover the annotate section under the video.
  2. Type in the Add a public comment... box. On mobile, you may need to tap the annotate section to expand information technology.
  3. Enter your annotate.
  4. Click Annotate.

Note: Before posting a annotate, yous may see a notification intended to encourage respectful interactions on YouTube. This reminder displays when our arrangement finds your comment could be considered offensive to others. Yous may reflect on your comment or view our Community Guidelines earlier posting. This reminder is only bachelor for English language and Castilian comments right at present.

Private videos

Comments are not available on private videos. If you lot want to permit comments on a video that'due south non publicly available, postal service an unlisted video instead.

Unlisted videos

You tin comment and respond to comments on unlisted videos. Comments on unlisted videos can be seen past anyone who has the link to the video. Learn more nigh unlisted videos and privacy settings.

If y'all don't have a YouTube channel, past posting a annotate y'all'll automatically create a channel. You tin access and manage your channel by going to your contour motion-picture show after posting your comment.

Reply to comments

  1. Click Answer below a comment.
  2. Type in your comment.
  3. ClickREPLY.

Add formatting to comments

Add manner to your annotate

You can use rich text to format your comment with common special tags, such equally:

  • *bold text* → bold
  • _italicized text_ → italics
  • -strikethrough text- → strikethrough

Add together links to your annotate

If y'all add a URL to your comment, information technology will evidence as a hyperlink.

Add together hearts to favorite comments

You tin use a heart to show appreciation for a viewer'south comments on your Community tab comments, in addition to comments on the watch page.

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Go to a Community tab post.
  3. Look for the eye side by side to the thumbs up / thumbs down icons.

Viewers will see your avatar with a small ruby heart on the lower left and receive a notification (depending on viewer opt-in settings on desktop and mobile) that a channel owner "loves your comment."

Pin comments to the top

Highlight a comment for your fans by pinning information technology to the top of the annotate section. On mobile, viewers may need to expand the annotate section to run into the pinned comment. You tin choose to pivot your own comment or a fan annotate.

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. In the comments beneath a video, select the comment you want to pivot.
  3. Click More thanand then  Pin . If you've already pinned a comment, this will replace information technology.
    Note: You can Unpin a annotate at whatsoever fourth dimension and the comment will be moved dorsum to information technology's original position.
  4. Click Pivot to ostend.

On desktop, viewers will run across the pinned comment at the top of the lookout man folio with a "Pinned by" icon and your aqueduct name. On mobile, they may need to tap the comment section to expand it.

Edit or remove your annotate

Annotate previews FAQ

Which comments show up in this comment preview department?

A comment may testify up in the comment preview section for many reasons. For example, the comment was:

  • Recently posted
  • Pinned or given a "heart" by the video creator

How do I view all comments?

To view all comments, tap anywhere in the comment preview section.

To go back to the watch next video list, tap the 10 in the upper right corner.

Will my pinned comments show in the comment preview section?

Since in that location'south express space in comment preview sections, pinning a annotate doesn't guarantee that it will show upward in the comment preview department. Nevertheless, pinned comments will continue to show upwards as the first comment when someone taps to view all.

Do my electric current annotate moderation settings apply to the comment preview section?

Yeah. All comment moderation settings apply to the comment preview section, including blocked words and subconscious users. Learn more virtually how to manage and moderate your comments .

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