See exactly what changed
The changed words are marked, with the text around them, and you can open each version the tray still has.
Feature
Edited comments
See what changed after a comment was posted.
When a viewer edits a comment, the tray keeps the versions it saw and marks what changed, for as long as it keeps the text. It can assess the new wording, but it won't hold a comment you've already allowed or put back.
CommentExample
Edit history
In contextEdit historyAssessmentThe record
"Nice jig. I might try that on the next one."
(edited)
Changes are marked, so a one-letter edit in a long comment is easy to spot.
"Nice jig. I might try that on the next one. Shame it is a paid plug."
Assessment
Would hold this comment. The edit added an accusation the first version did not make.
The record
Every write attempted
Activity for this comment
Outcomes
What you can do with it
Read the assessments beside the edit
Edit history sits on the comment's page with its assessments and The record.
Come back to it later
The edit history is still there the next time you have to decide about that comment or that viewer, for as long as the tray keeps it.
The path
How it works
The tray sees an edit
When YouTube reports that a comment's wording has changed, the tray stores the new version.
The version is kept
Each version the tray keeps is listed on the comment's page.
The new words are checked
Each AI rule you've switched on can check the new wording.
Open Edit history
Read the before and after. The assessments and The record are on the same page.
The one-way door
A comment you've put back or allowed is settled. Your decision overrides everything else, and the tray won't hold it again.
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