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. If at any point you don’t want your Community to be visible anymore, you can turn it off.
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.
- On your computer, sign in to YouTube Studio.
- From the left Menu, click Settings.
- Click Community moderation
User management.
- Enter the moderator’s channel URL in the “Standard moderators” box.
- Click SAVE.
The moderator won’t get a notification that you’ve added them. Let the moderator know that they can remove Community Posts.
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. The minimum subscription time is one day by default. You can change the default time under “Posts in your Community” in your Content controls settings.
Learn how to find Content controls in YouTube Studio.
Hide users
To hide a user who has posted in your Community:
- Go to their post.
- In the top-right corner, click More
.
Hiding someone applies to your whole channel, not just your Community.
If you don’t want a certain subscriber to post in your Community, you can hide them.
- Sign in to YouTube.
- Go to their channel page.
- Next to their channel description, click More.
- Scroll to the bottom. Click Report user
Review posts
You can choose whether you want to hold posts for review before they’re published in your Community. Learn how to hold posts for review on YouTube Studio.
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.