Product
Features
Everything the tray does, and where it stops.
Each card says what the feature does today and where its limits are.
Moderation
- Hold for reviewA rule proposes a hold and waits for you. Say yes and the comment leaves public view.
- Shadow Mode or Automatic ModeReview proposed holds, or let selected built-in categories hold automatically.
- TrainingReview proposed holds and AI assessments. Your decisions help you judge when to use Automatic.
- Plain-language rulesWrite what you mean, not a blocked-word list, and preview it on sample comments.
- Never writes as youIt holds comments. No automatic replies: the AI never writes a word in your name.
- AI is optionalChoose which AI rules read new comments.
- Edited commentsReview revisions the tray observed and compare the wording. An observed edit can be assessed again, while your explicit allow or restore decision still prevents a new hold.
Viewers
- Viewer standingSee how each viewer has been treated before you act.
- Timed probationHold a viewer's new comments until a date you set; it lifts itself.
- Name patternsGet told when a name or handle matches a pattern you chose. It never decides identity, and it never bans.
- Viewer historyOne page per viewer: their comments, names, standing and what you did.
Record
- Comment archiveSearch comments the tray observed, and the moderation around them. It is not a complete YouTube history.
- Audit trailWhat the tray saw, which rule judged it, what was done, and how it went on YouTube.
- NotificationsA short list of what needs a look, each linked to where it happened.
- YouTube Studio: HeldTriage YouTube's own held and spam queues in one tab.
- Safety checks and the pause buttonOne button pauses every automatic hold; YouTube quota and account access checks still apply.
From the comments
Built by a creator, for his own channel first
I built the moderator my own channel needed.
Hey friends, I'm Mike. My channel grew to 50,000 subscribers, and the comments grew well past 50,000 with it. No one creator can read every comment at that size. I really valued the community that built up around my channel, but the volume and intensity of comments was overwhelming.
When the trolls started taking over the time I wanted to spend with the lovely community around my channel, I dusted off the toolkit and built The Litter Tray around the rules and restraint I wanted near my own audience. I want creators to be able to get set up in seconds, spend a few minutes setting the rules that matter to them, and make persistent trolls much harder to miss, so they can get back to making videos.
Mike