Pause quickly
While paused, the tray asks you instead of holding anything, and nothing waiting is lost.
Feature
Safety checks and the pause button
Pause the tray without disconnecting the channel.
The status strip at the top of every page has the Pause button, and shows when the tray is paused or checking a restored backup. Holds on Auto and probation holds have no hourly or daily limit. After a burst of comments, though, holds on Auto wait an hour before they act.
Example
Running
By itself, the tray can only ever move a comment to Held for review.
Paused
The tray still reads comments, and asks you instead of holding anything.
3 waiting for you
Pause
Outcomes
What you can do with it
Resume when ready
Press Resume on the status strip to let automatic and probation holds run again.
Nothing fails quietly
If YouTube refuses a change, it goes on a list of its own with the reason.
The path
How it works
A hold on Auto is ready
The tray checks whether this comment can still be held.
The safety checks run
The tray checks that you haven't paused it, that there's YouTube quota left, that it still has access to your channel, and that it isn't checking a restored backup or waiting out a burst of comments.
The hold goes to YouTube
Once the checks pass, the tray sends the hold to YouTube. If it has to wait, the tray records why.
Check the status strip
The strip tells you why the tray stopped and what has to happen before you can resume.
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