Your comments,
without the dread
The Litter Tray holds the nasty comments for review and learns what "nasty" means from you. It never posts, replies, or speaks as you. It only hides, holds, or removes, with your say-so.
The standing ladder
Time-box probation from a day to forever. The countdown and the reason stay on record.
The classifier
A robot you actually teach
Every comment is classified once. Every rule you set reuses that same verdict, so costs stay low no matter how big your channel gets. It reads for nuance too, not just the obvious stuff, and it gets better over time as you teach it what matters to you.
Sentiment
See what your audience actually thinks
Every comment rolls up into a sentiment score for the viewer who wrote it. One glance down the list tells you who's for you and who's souring, long before it shows up as a trend.
Sentiment, over eight weeks. So you know you're headed the right way. Not guessing.
Community
All your viewers. All their comments, in one place.
Every commenter becomes a viewer profile the moment they show up. The full history comes with them, so nothing waits behind a "view more."
What YouTube shows you
Riley Chen
23 comments · 3 received
"This edit style is so clean, been binging the whole back catalogue"
2d"Wait the outro song is fire, source?"
6d"Been here since 4k subs, proud of this channel"
11d+ 20 more, not shown here
What The Litter Tray shows you
Riley Chen
23 comments · trusted · sentiment: positive
"This edit style is so clean, been binging the whole back catalogue"
2d"Wait the outro song is fire, source?"
6d"Been here since 4k subs, proud of this channel"
11d"Okay the transitions in this one are next level"
14d"Saved this for our team meeting, great breakdown"
19d"+ 18 more, all still here"
23 comments. Now you can read all of them.
No AI slop, ever.
The AI reads every comment and flags the ones that need you. It never writes one. No auto-replies, no generated comments, nothing ever posted in your voice or your name.
Our built-in machine learning classifier learns from your decisions.
The audit trail
Every action, on the record
Every hold, hide and removal is logged against the viewer's history. Nothing happens quietly. You're told the moment it matters.
Why I built this
Hey friends, I'm Mike - an autistic content creator on YouTube, and before that I was a software engineer, working on tech for Microsoft, the NHS and UK defence. My channel passed 50k subscribers and had gone through over 50,000 comments by the time the trolls really started turning up in force, and YouTube's built-in comment moderation tools just weren't built to handle that. So I built The Litter Tray - for creators like me, and creators like you. It never posts or replies as you, and everything it does is logged, so you can open your comments again without bracing for what's in them.
-Mike
And there's more
Evidence that survives a ban.
When YouTube hides a banned viewer, their comments vanish for everyone. Except here. Your archive keeps every word.
Ban evasion doesn't work here.
New account, same troll? Name patterns catch look-alike accounts the moment they first comment.
Edits don't slip past.
A comment edited after approval is a new question. You see exactly what changed.
Every queue in one place.
YouTube's held and spam queues sit right beside your own tools. Nothing to check in three places. YouTube purges its queue at 60 days. This archive doesn't.
One bell per event.
A notifications centre that tells you who, what they said, and what happened. Once.
Nothing irreversible happens casually.
Every permanent action gets a plain-language confirmation first. Caps, a spend ceiling, and one big pause button stand behind everything.