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YouTube Studio Comment Moderation Setup: Blocked Words List, Held for Review Defaults, Moderator Roles, and Live Chat Rules for a Growing Channel
Set up YouTube Studio comment and live chat moderation for a channel that is starting to attract spam and pile ons: a blocked words list built from your real problem comments, the right default comment setting, link holding, approved and hidden users, standard versus managing moderators, and a weekly review routine.
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Prompt
Act as a YouTube community manager who configures comment and live chat moderation in YouTube Studio for creator channels. You protect the comment section without smothering it, and you build filters from the channel's actual problem comments, not from a generic bad word list. Inputs: - Channel niche, audience, and whether any videos are set as made for kids: [ChannelProfile] - Ten to thirty real problem comments or patterns (scam replies, impersonators, slurs, spoilers, link spam), pasted with usernames removed: [ProblemComments] - Words or phrases fans use normally that a filter must not catch: [SafeVocabulary] - People who help moderate and how much you trust each one: [ModeratorTeam] - Whether you go live and how busy chat gets: [LiveChat] - Hours per week someone can spend in the Held for review queue: [ReviewTime] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Problem pattern map: group ProblemComments into types, and for each say which YouTube Studio tool handles it (blocked words, Block links, hidden users, the default hold setting, or manual removal). 2. Blocked words list for Settings, Community, Automated filters: comma separated entries, including common misspellings and spaced or symbol variants seen in ProblemComments, with SafeVocabulary checked so no entry is a substring trap. Note that matching comments go to Held for review rather than being deleted. 3. Default comment setting for new videos (Allow all, Hold potentially inappropriate comments for review, Increase strictness, Hold all comments for review, or Off) chosen against ReviewTime, and whether to turn on Block links so comments with URLs and hashtags are held. Mention that made for kids videos have comments turned off regardless. 4. People settings: who goes on Approved users (bypass filters), how to use Hidden users for repeat offenders, and Standard versus Managing moderator for each person in ModeratorTeam. 5. Live chat plan for LiveChat: the same blocked words apply to chat, slow mode and subscriber or member only chat settings to consider, and what moderators do in chat (remove, timeout, hide user). 6. Weekly routine: a short checklist for clearing Held for review, adding new variants to the list, and pinning or hearting a good comment to set the tone. Include a pinned comment draft with the channel rules in two or three plain sentences. Constraints: - Do not paste slurs in full in the output; show them with the masking the user used and tell them to enter their real variants. - Mark settings to verify in Studio if the label may have changed. - No em dashes.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
ChannelProfile: budget aquarium keeping, 38k subscribers, adults and teens, no made for kids videos ProblemComments: 'Thanks for watching! Message me on telegram for a prize' (x40, from channels using my name and avatar), 'w.h.a.t.s.a.p.p me', 'your tank is animal abuse, unsubscribe everyone', 'bit.ly links to fish sale', 'betta dies at the end lol' on a new video, two masked slurs (f****t and r*tard variants) SafeVocabulary: 'cichlid', 'Tetra', 'prize fish', 'dead spot' (flow term), 'telegraph tetra' is NOT a thing, ignore ModeratorTeam: my partner Jo (full trust), two longtime viewers Sam and Priya (trusted for comments only) LiveChat: monthly 90 minute Q and A, 200 to 400 viewers ReviewTime: about 2 hours a week Format: sections 1 to 6 Lang: English
Example Output
1. Pattern map | Type | Example | Tool | | Impersonator prize scam | Message me on telegram for a prize | Blocked words + Hidden users for the copycat channels | | Spaced contact bait | w.h.a.t.s.a.p.p me | Blocked words with variants | | Link spam | bit.ly fish sale | Block links (holds URLs and hashtags) | | Spoilers | betta dies at the end | Blocked words for the first week of a video, then remove from list | | Pile on | animal abuse, unsubscribe everyone | Default hold setting; human review, not a word filter | | Slurs | two masked variants | Blocked words with your real spellings | 2. Blocked words telegram, telegrm, t.e.l.e.g.r.a.m, whatsapp, whatsap, w.h.a.t.s.a.p.p, whats app, message me, msg me, dm me for, for a prize, you have been selected, congratulations you won, bit.ly, tinyurl, [your two slur variants as you have seen them typed], dies at the end SafeVocabulary check: prize fish is not caught because the entry is for a prize, not prize. Tetra is safe; no entry is a substring of it. Matches land in Held for review, so a false positive costs a click, not a lost comment. 3. Defaults With about 2 hours a week, use Hold potentially inappropriate comments for review and turn on Increase strictness for the next month while the scam wave is active. Hold all would bury you at 38k subscribers. Turn on Block links. No made for kids videos, so comments stay available on everything. 4. People - Approved users: Jo, Sam, Priya, and three regulars who often share a link to their own tank build, so their links are not held. - Hidden users: every copycat account using your name and avatar, added from the comment menu. - Managing moderator: Jo (can also edit the filters). Standard moderator: Sam and Priya (review held comments and remove; cannot change settings). Verify these role names in Settings, Permissions and Community; Studio labels change. 5. Live chat - The blocked words list also screens live chat. - For 200 to 400 viewers, set slow mode around 10 to 15 seconds and keep chat open to everyone; switch to subscribers only only if a raid starts. - Moderator script: remove scam messages, put repeat posters in timeout, hide a user who comes back after timeout. Jo watches chat while you talk. 6. Weekly routine (30 minutes, twice a week) - Clear Held for review oldest first; approve real questions, remove scams, hide the account if it impersonates you. - Copy any new spelling trick into the list. - Delete dies at the end once the video is 7 days old. - Heart and pin one useful viewer answer on each new upload. Pinned comment draft: I will never ask you to message me on Telegram or WhatsApp, and I do not run prize giveaways in the comments. Disagreement about tank care is welcome; insults and pile ons get removed. Questions get answered first.