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.
Open any comment and you'll find how each rule assessed it, how its wording changed, and The record of everything the tray did with it. Each rule keeps its own version history, with a preview. Each viewer's page keeps a history of what was done about them.
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
Insults or mocks youaimed 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 change that didn't land
If a change didn't reach YouTube, the record shows what happened and why.
Know who did it
The record shows which actions the tray took automatically and which a person chose.
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's page
Check how it was assessed, whether it was edited, and The record of what was done.
Check the rule or the viewer
If the question is about the rule, Rules has its version history and a preview. If it's about the person, open the viewer's action history.
Decide what's next
The recorded reason and YouTube's result tell you whether anything still needs doing.
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 valued the community that built up around my channel, but the volume and intensity of the comments were overwhelming.
When trolls started taking the time I wanted to spend with that community, I dusted off the toolkit and built The Litter Tray around the rules and restraint I wanted for my own audience. I want other creators to get set up in minutes, set the rules that matter to them, and make persistent trolls much harder to miss, so they can get back to making videos.
Mike