The Litter Tray

Feature

Name patterns

A familiar-looking name or handle can trigger an alert without deciding who is behind it.

You banned them on Tuesday. They were back on Wednesday. The tray checks display names and handles against the Name patterns you chose. A match is recorded and can alert you. It never claims identity, holds the comment, or bans the viewer: you decide after checking the pattern hit and viewer history.

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An illustration of the Name patterns settings, with one pattern, the fields it checks and its latest match.

Outcomes

What you can do with it

See the match

Check display names, handles, or both, including simple disguised spellings.

See the recorded hit

The viewer profile shows the pattern and date, while Settings shows the pattern's hit count and last hit.

Decide with context

Inspect comments, names seen, Name-pattern hits, and standing before taking a separate action.

The path

How it works

  1. Add a pattern

    In Settings, choose display name, handle, or both and save a pattern the form accepts.

  2. Wait for a new comment

    The tray checks the name and handle when it observes the comment; Trusted viewers are skipped.

  3. Receive the match record

    A new viewer can trigger an immediate alert; later matches can appear in the daily digest.

  4. Inspect and choose

    Open the viewer, then separately choose Trusted or Probation if the history supports it. A ban is a separate channel-owner decision and always asks for confirmation.

Keep going

Useful for

Use cases and plans

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Mike, the founder, in his own uncropped photo

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