To be clear, you may already change off video feedback, each on the channel and particular person video stage, however in doing so, you additionally deactivate all feedback, even those who have already been posted. You may work round this, by holding feedback for overview, however there’s presently no straightforward strategy to halt feedback at a given level.

This new course of goals to supply extra of a center floor, so you may keep a stage of dialogue, even for those who do select to change feedback off.

As defined by YouTube:

“We’re experimenting with a brand new remark moderation setting referred to as “Pause” that permits creators to stop the creation of latest feedback on the video stage, whereas preserving feedback that have been already revealed. For those who’re within the experiment, you’ll see the choice to pick out “pause” in your video-level remark settings (gear icon within the higher right-hand nook of the feedback panel) on the watch web page within the YouTube app or in YouTube Studio on each desktop and cell.”

It’s a comparatively easy, and simple course of, which is able to present extra management over your video-related dialogue, and may very well be helpful in sure conditions the place your content material is getting quite a lot of undesirable consideration, because of information occasions, concerted assaults, and so forth.

When the setting is activated, viewers will likely be proven a “Feedback are paused” notification within the remark part, alerting them to the replace, whereas they’ll nonetheless be capable of scroll by earlier replies.

Creators within the experiment will now additionally see three classes of their remark controls: “On”, “Pause”, “Off”, together with extra sub-settings for remark moderation.

Once more, it may very well be helpful in sure conditions, offering extra management over your YouTube expertise.

YouTube says that it’s testing out the brand new choice “with a small variety of channels” to start with.