Explain a decision
See which rule assessed the comment, whether it waited for approval, and what happened next.
Feature
Audit trail
Trace what the tray saw, which rule assessed the comment, and how the action went.
Comment detail shows Assessments, Edit history, and The record in separate sections. Each rule keeps its version history with a preview, and each viewer profile keeps its action history.
CommentExample
Comment
In contextAssessmentTeach this assessmentModerate this commentThe record
"Anyone who builds it this way has never held a chisel."
Hold
Would hold this comment. Contempt aimed at the creator rather than the work.
Assessment
very sure
personal contemptaimed at you
The record
Every write attempted
We first saw it · The tray assessed it · We suggested a moderation action
Outcomes
What you can do with it
Find a failed YouTube change
Follow a failed YouTube action to its recorded status and reason.
Know who did it
Separate automatic work from choices made by a person in the history the tray observed.
The path
How it works
Open the comment
Start from the queue, the bell, or the archive and open the comment in question.
Read the comment detail
Inspect Assessments, Edit history, and The record in their separate sections.
Check the rule or the viewer
Use Rules for version history and previews, or open the viewer's action history when the question is about the policy or the person.
Resolve from evidence
Use the recorded reason and YouTube result to decide what needs attention next.
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