When you livestream,
eventually you're going to have one of these guys pop up right here.
I mean, not probably a troll doll, but you know what I mean?
Actual trolls and spammers, and sometimes even haters.
So in this video, I'm going to share some tips about how to handle these guys.
Hey, there I'm Kevin Kolbe and today we're talking about dealing with trolls,
spammers haters. You know,
when you're live streaming and you got your mojo and you're in your groove and
all of a sudden you look down and somebody's like leaving some nasty comments or
they just want to mess with you kinda kinda throw your vibe off.
So here are some things you ought to do to help with that. First thing,
ignore them. Now I realize it may be hard to,
because most of the time, the people that are like just trolling,
you are just wanting to kind of get you going. And by responding back to them,
you get them going and you give them what they want.
So sometimes best thing to do is just ignore them. Okay.
Let's say that you use your phone as part of your live streaming,
your live streaming setup, or to monitor comments,
and you're getting them and you're getting them.
Turn notifications off and that way it limits your distractions on here.
Now you may have to find a different way of monitoring your comments,
but if you keep getting notifications and you look down and go, wow,
what the heck, I would turn your phone off or at least turn notifications off.
Another tip is to turn off comments.
Now I'm not a fan of this tip,
but I'm throwing it out there because if you are doing a live stream and you
think maybe because of the subject matter or something like that,
you could potentially get some bad comments. You could turn commenting off.
And that way you just can't see it again. By doing that though,
I think you kind of cut out the whole point of live streaming.
The fact that you want to engage with your audience, but that is another option.
So this next tip is for the really, really bad stuff.
When somebody leaves a comment that just really crosses that line, report them.
And a lot of times I'll see folks in groups saying, well, you know,
should I or not? And they'll post the comment.
We all have our own kind of code of ethics and lines,
but there's a lot of things that can be said in comments that are just,
that ain't right. In that case, report them,
report them to YouTube or Facebook or whatever platform you're on.
Just don't let it go report them. Let's say,
you're going to have a guest on your show,
which in StreamYard is way easy to do.
You might want to go into your settings and make sure that they authenticate
with either Facebook or YouTube and that gives you kind of an extra layer of
protection. And then that way, if something happens, you can boot them.
You can kick them out or something like that. But by adding that in there,
just think of it as kind of like a two-step authentication type of thing.
But you go into your settings, you turn that on and you should be golden.
So let's say you're live streaming along and all of a sudden,
you get one of these comments that you're thinking, yeah, that ain't gonna fly.
Well,
StreamYard makes it very easy to do one of three things
live on-the-fly. You can choose to block the person,
kick the person or put them in time-out. So when you're live streaming,
you'll see these three dots. They're vertical dots to the side. Well,
when you click on that, you have the option to block, kick or time-out.
Now if you block somebody,
it deletes the comment and it will block them from your channel.
If you kick somebody, it just takes them out of the screen.
If you choose time-out, well, it pauses them.
Now it might be better to put them in time-out first and then decide later if
you really want to block them or delete them. So there you go.
Some tips and ways to handle those spammers and those trolls and those haters
when you have them in a live stream. Hey, hang on, what? Little
troll here said to make sure you subscribe to the channel and hit like for a lot
of videos, all about live streaming and we'll see you in the next video.