Interacting with comments is a great way to maintain a healthy community on your channel. Learn more about how to moderate comments .
Manage comments
- Sign in to YouTube Studio .
- From the left menu, select Community
.
- Choose the tab that you’d like to review:
- Published:Comments that everyone can see.
- Held:Comments that are held based on your settings and comments that are automatically held by YouTube as likely spam.
You can use the filter bar
Eligible creators will see "Comments & Mentions" in Studio on their computer. Learn more about mentions eligibility .
Reply & react to published comments
From the Publishedtab, you can:
- Reply:Select REPLYto respond to a comment directly. Learn more about replying with comment reply suggestions .
- Heart:Select the heart
beneath a comment to show appreciation.
- Like:Select thumbs up
to like a comment.
- Dislike:Select thumbs down
to dislike a comment.
- Pin:Select More
Pinto highlight a comment at the top of your video’s watch page. This option only appears when viewing comments for an individual video.
Tip:To help you learn more about who’s commenting, badges will show up next to commenters’ names in YouTube Studio. For example, there are badges for top commenters
, channel members
, and publicly subscribed commenters
.
, channel members
, and publicly subscribed commenters.FAQ
Are viewers told when I heart, like, dislike, pin, or reply to their comment?
If you heart, pin, or reply to a comment, the commenter may get a notification that you responded, depending on their notification settings.
Likes and dislikes are anonymous. If you like a comment, the commenter may get a notification that says, “Someone liked your comment." Viewers don’t get a notification when you dislike their comment.
How do I unpin a comment?
If you pinned a comment to the top of the watch page, but don’t want it there anymore, you can unpin it. Next to the comment, select More
Unpin.
You can also pin a different comment, which will unpin the previous one.
