The Litter Tray

Feature

Name patterns

The tray can alert you when a name or handle matches a pattern you set. It doesn't decide who's 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. That's all it does: it never says who someone is, holds their comment or bans them. You check the match and the viewer's history, then decide.

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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

Match names, handles or both

A pattern can check display names, handles or both, and can catch simple disguised spellings.

See where it matched

The viewer's page shows which pattern matched and when. Settings shows how many times each pattern has matched and when it last did.

Look before you act

Read the viewer's comments, the names they've used, their pattern matches and their standing before you do anything.

The path

How it works

  1. Add a pattern

    In Settings, choose display name, handle or both, then save your pattern. The form tells you if it can't use one.

  2. Wait for a new comment

    The tray checks the name and handle on each new comment it sees. It skips Trusted viewers.

  3. Receive the match record

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

  4. Look, then decide

    Open the viewer. If their history supports it, mark them Trusted or put them on Probation. Banning is a separate step for the channel owner, and it always asks you to confirm.

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Mike, the founder of The Litter Tray

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