Q&A for How to Disable Comments on Videos on YouTube

Yes, it is possible to remove someone else's comment on your own video. You can do this if it is an inappropriate comment.

It depends. Ask yourself these questions: Are your videos something you want open to the public to see? Do they contain anything personal, like people's faces? Would you be embarrassed if someone found the video and showed it to strangers? Unlisted videos are not private. Someone who has the link to your videos can keep it forever and share it to other people. A troll can use it to harass you if they have harmful intentions. It doesn't matter if you have comments turned off; a troll can use another social media site and harass you there. Setting them to private is the safest option, especially if your videos contain personal content. Only approved people can view a private video.

Not always. Reporting a comment or user should only be done if the user is posting anything against YouTube's policy, such as anything life-threatening or illegal. For example, harmful content or sexually inappropriate imagery should be reported right away. Harassing or trolling isn't a red flag to report, since they aren't technically breaking any rules. You can block them and ignore their messages.

You can block a user by visiting their channel and clicking the flag icon in the "About" section. That will open a drop-down menu with the option "Block user". This will prevent the user from commenting on your videos. You can also choose to filter out certain words within your channel's dashboard if they are often used by trolls/haters commenting on your videos. If the same person is creating multiple accounts to harass you, then report them.

You can use restricted mode which will remove comments even if you're signed out.

Yes. You can do this within your channel's dashboard by editing a video. The comments visibility setting can be changed at any time. If any comments were posted on the video before you disabled them, then they won't be removed, unless you manually delete them one by one.

Often a content producer will disable comments because they keep receiving negative feedback about the video. Content that's sensitive or controversial is most likely to receive hate comments and the uploader doesn't want to start any arguments. Some people don't want to make their video private, but at the same time they don't want people commenting on it. Another reason may be that the content maker is too busy to respond to comments and does not want them building up without responses.

Disable the comments. Though sensitive to some, they're probably useful to others.

This depends on the situation, but you may need to simply block the troll from commenting from your videos. If it grows into a dire situation, you can disable comments.

The only way to do that is turn on Restricted Mode, an option that can be accessed from the settings button, which on a website is a 3-dots icon at the top of the site; on mobile, it is a gear icon found by pressing the user icon and is at the bottom menu on the TV version. Keep in mind that it not only hides all comments but also hides inappropriate videos.