The Litter Tray

Feature

Sentiment

Is the room turning, or was that just today?

The tray scores how each AI-read comment stands toward you and your community. It is not a mood detector, and the score never decides whether a comment should be held. As the scored record grows, Sentiment shows the room over the last 30 days, how each video landed, and comments that mention sponsors you have named.

An illustration of the Sentiment page, with the last thirty days above how each video landed.

Outcomes

What you can do with it

See the room over time

Follow scored comments across the latest 30 days, with the month before shown when there is enough to compare.

See how each video landed

Read hostile, neutral, or supportive with a comment count once a video has at least three scores.

Bring sponsor mentions

Add a sponsor by name and read AI-scored matching comments in the viewers' own words, with the video and date attached.

The path

How it works

  1. The AI reads a comment

    The score runs from -1 for hostile or contemptuous, through 0 for neutral or purely informational, to +1 for encouraging or supportive. Scores from -0.15 to +0.15 are shown as neutral.

  2. The score stays separate

    It describes the commenter's stance toward you and your community, not their mood, and never changes a moderation decision.

  3. A few comments become a view

    The app waits for three scored comments before it draws a 30-day line, labels the latest seven days, or shows a video or overall sponsor score.

  4. Open Sentiment

    Read the room overall, how each video landed, and what people are saying about sponsors you added.

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