- I'm gonna show you how to ban comment spam on YouTube,
and I'm gonna show you how to ban trolls,
so you can have a super clean comments sections.
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Okay, we all know that comment spam sucks,
so I'm gonna show you how to, massively,
reduce the amount of comment spam that you're getting
and I'm gonna show you how to get rid of the trolls too.
But real quick, I'm curious to know
if you are having trouble currently with comment spammers
or with people trolling you on your channel.
Let me know down in the comments.
Let's head to the computer.
Okay, so what you want to do, the very first thing
we're gonna tackle here is, massively,
reducing the comment spam that you get on your channel.
What you wanna do, is you want to go into
your creator studio and once you're in your creator studio,
you want to go over to community.
Under community you want to go under community settings.
Once you're in there, your page is going to look
something like this, and what you wanna do,
is you want to scroll down the page
and you're gonna look for a section called blocked words.
Now I highly recommend that you copy exactly
what I have here into your blocked words section
because this has, massively,
helped me reduce my comment spam,
and basically it keeps my comment section
on most of my videos pretty clean
and I keep updating this as I find new things that,
you know, new ways that people are trying
to say the same thing.
But I also have a few additional ones
that you can add as well, that I will pop up
on the screen here in just a few minutes
but I'll actually zoom in on this so you can actually see
a little bit better what it is that you should add.
Basically, sub for sub, shout out, check out my channel,
sub to me, comment done, sub four sub, like for,
the equals sign, because people are doing this weird
math thing that they think seems to be working,
sub to my channel, subscribe for subscribe,
subscribe to my channel.
Those are the main ones that I highly recommend.
The other ones that I'm getting ready to show you,
I can't use on my channel
because of the type of content that I make.
It would block out a lot of legitimate comments, as well.
But real quick, I'm going to just leave this
on the screen if you want to go ahead
and just copy this into your blocked words section, as well.
Okay so the next batch that I'm gonna pull up
on the screen here that you may also want to include is
check out my videos, check out my channel,
please check out my channel.
I would also add those variations
to your blocked words list and by doing so, if you add
all this stuff you are going to,
massively, reduce your comment spam.
And what's going to happen,
is when you go into your comments from that point on,
your spam is going to just start filling up like crazy,
you know, depending on the amount of comments that you get.
Now let's say that you have people
that are actually trolling you but they are not spamming,
so they are not falling under those filters.
And just as a side note, I'll actually go back
to the community settings really quick
and if you have things that you want to add in here
additionally, you know, if you want to.
If there's a particular thing that people always talk about,
like in my situation people say,
you know, why are his lips red?
So actually I'm just going to put lips red
and see if it catches that, right.
So you can do the same thing.
So basically, anything that people constantly say to harass
or troll you, you can just add it right here
and then there's a really high chance,
a really high probability,
that YouTube is gonna go ahead and block them for you.
But let's say that you have somebody
that's getting around all of this.
They're not asking for a sub
but they are harassing you, in some way.
All you have to do is find that user's comment,
you know, if they're a hater,
if they are blasting on you in any way, shape, or form,
all you have to do is you have to find their comment,
go over to the little flag icon
and then you can report them for spam and abuse
and if they get enough of these, YouTube will actually
cancel their channel out, you know,
because they're just going around harassing people.
You can also go the other route,
which is hide this user's comments on this channel.
When you do that, what's going to happen is
they can comment and say horrible things all day long
but nobody's going to see it except for them.
This is basically the concept of shadow banning,
so they will see their comments but everybody else
on YouTube is not going to see their comments,
so that is a fantastic way to clean up
your comment section and to delete trolls.
And one thing I want to mention, also,
is that this list is going to continue to grow over time.
So from time to time, check in with me
on one of my live streams and ask about this list,
so that I can give you updated versions of it
as I try to fine tune this,
and basically what I'm after is,
I'm trying to get this to a point
to where I can just completely alleviate comment spam
of people asking, you know, the same exact things,
you know, for checking out their channels,
trying to get subscribers and all that stuff.
And for you people that are actually trying these tactics,
just so you know, these are the efforts
that people have to go through
in order to keep you off of their channel,
so please, please stop practicing this
because it is not effective
and long-term it's actually going to hurt your channel
and possibly cause you to lose it.
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