Moderate your Community

Once you’ve set up your Community, there are additional features to help you and your moderators manage it. You can control who posts in your Community and hold posts for review before they’re published. If you’ve set up blocked words or links for comments, those same words and links will be blocked for posts in your Community.

Communities on YouTube

If at any point you don’t want your Community to be visible anymore, you can turn it off.

Manage who can post

Choose a minimum subscribe time

You can choose how long someone will need to be subscribed to your channel before posting in your Community.

1. In the YouTube app, go to your channel page.
2. Tap Visit Community.
3. Tap Community settings Who can post .
4. In the dropdown, select a minimum subscribe time.

Hide users

If you don’t want a certain subscriber to post in your Community, you can hide them.

1. In the YouTube app, go to their channel page.
2. In the upper-right corner, tap More .
3. Tap Hide user from my channel.

Hiding someone applies to your whole channel, not just your Community.

Review posts

You can choose whether you want to hold posts for review before they’re published in your Community.

1. Log in to YouTube Studio on your computer.
2. Click Settings Community moderation Defaults.
3. Under “Posts in the Community,” select a setting.

The settings you can choose from are:

• None: Don’t hold any viewer posts.
• Basic: Hold potentially inappropriate posts.
• Hold all: Hold all viewer posts.

Add a moderator

You can invite moderators to help manage comments on your videos and channel. Anyone with a YouTube channel can be a moderator.

1. On your computer, sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left Menu, click Settings.
3. Click Community.
4. Enter the moderator’s channel URL in the “Standard moderators” box.
5. Click SAVE.

The moderator won’t get a notification that you’ve added them. Let the moderator know that they can remove Community Posts.

Turn off your Community

1. Log in to YouTube Studio on your computer.
2. Click Settings Community moderation Defaults.
3. Under “Posts in your Community,” find the “Viewer posts” drop-down menu. 
4. Select Off.

When you turn off your Community, existing posts will be hidden. If you turn your Community back on, the posts will be visible again.