{"id":321455,"date":"2019-09-27T11:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=321455"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:09:20","slug":"big-changes-to-youtubes-comment-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/321455-big-changes-to-youtubes-comment-section.html","title":{"rendered":"Big changes to YouTube&#8217;s comment section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/15375630?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>new comment filtering system<\/strong><\/a> to help creators on its site locate and respond to comments they deem to be more important.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube previously added several tools to manage interactions in the comments section, such as comment pinning, creator hearts, and the ability to withhold inappropriate replies for YouTube review.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature aims to ease the process of scanning through hundreds or even thousands of replies from channel viewers, so creators can better engage with their audience.<\/p>\n<p>By using new search filters, creators can now pinpoint comments that include questions, as well as find replies by prominent users and channels with high subscriber counts.<\/p>\n<p>According to YouTube, the addition of these filters is the most requested feature the company receives from creators.<\/p>\n<p>The added search filters include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Response status<\/strong>: Has the creator already responded to the comment?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contains question:<\/strong> Does the comment contain a question?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subscriber count:<\/strong> Does the commenter have at least 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, one million or 10 million subscribers?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subscriber status:<\/strong> Is the commenter publicly subscribed to the creator?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member status:<\/strong> Is the commenter a member?<\/li>\n<li>Creators can access the feature on the desktop version of YouTube Studio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YouTube has also improved its keyword search functionality. Where searches previously only revealed comments that match the exact typed phrase, results will now also show expanded associated items.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/321415-facebook-tests-hiding-likes-and-reactions.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook tests hiding likes and reactions<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has launched a new comment filtering system to help creators on its site locate and respond to comments they deem to be more important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":107116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61127,53077,53641,2150],"class_list":["post-321455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-comment-filtering","tag-creators","tag-moderation","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}