Manage spam in comments

We've simplified the comment moderation experience and merged the two moderation tabs, "Held for review" and "Likely spam," in YouTube Studio. Now, comments automatically held by YouTube will show in the combined "Held for review" tab for upwardly to threescore days.

The "Report" or "Report as spam or abuse" option for comments allows the community to control the number of spam comments.

Report a annotate every bit spam

Anyone tin mark a comment as spam. From the comments department of a video or channel:

  1. Find the comment you'd like to study as spam.
  2. Select More and thenReport.
  3. Select Unwanted commercial content or spam and Written report.

Creators tin also report spam while reviewing comments in YouTube Studio.

Use the written report  feature with caution. Anyone who misuses it may be prohibited from using YouTube birthday.

Review comments held equally spam

To review comments reported equally spam on your videos or aqueduct:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left bill of fare, select Comments.
  3. Choose the Held for review tab.

Note: If whatever comments have been reported as spam on your content, they'll show toward the bottom of the Held for review tab. These comments will also be labeled as "Likely spam."

From the Held for review tab, you tin can choose to:

Understand spam

Spam is content or correspondences that create a negative experience by making it difficult to discover more relevant and substantive material. It tin can sometimes be used to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages on YouTube.

YouTube detects spam based on the text of a annotate, or by the behavior from a particular commenter. For example, repeatedly posting comments can be detected as spam.

Uploaders have more control over comments made on their videos. They can review your annotate before it'southward displayed or remove it birthday. The uploader can also "unmark" a comment as spam.

FAQ

What happens when a comment is reported as spam?

Can I undo marking a annotate as spam?

No. Once you lot've marked a comment as spam, there's no way to undo it.

Utilise the "Written report spam or abuse" feature with farthermost caution. If you misuse it, you may exist prohibited from YouTube.

How do I cake someone from spamming my comments?

To hide comments from a specific viewer:

  1. Find a comment they've left on your aqueduct or video.
  2. Next to the comment, select More and thenHide user from aqueduct.

Tin I stop filtering out spam comments?

Our systems automatically notice spam to help maintain a healthy conversation in YouTube comments. Creators can ever review and unmark comments that were flagged as "likely spam".

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