Ensuring creators are safe on YouTube
Over the past few years, we spent time talking with historically underrepresented creators about safety, and one of their key concerns was the rise in comments they saw across social platforms that were hurtful and even hateful. These creators valued YouTube’s commitment to remove any content that violates our
Community Guidelines
, but they also asked that we introduce updates that would make it possible to easily hide comments that are offensive to them personally.
In response to their feedback, our teams continue to invest in system improvements while also launching new features designed to help creators more easily moderate their comments. Here’s a look at some of that important progress.
● Creators have a new,
optional setting
that will catch even more potentially inappropriate or spam comments by selecting “Increase Strictness” in their comment settings. These comments are
held for review
in YouTube Studio, where creators can choose to approve, remove or report them.
● We also made an update to YouTube Studio so that comments that may be considered more hurtful than others are now placed in a separate, hidden section at the bottom of the held for review tab. This way, creators can choose to ignore them completely and leave them unreviewed if they prefer.
● Finally, we started rolling out
Channel Guidelines
, which allows creators to clearly communicate what is and is not ok in their comments section.