The Litter Tray

Feature

Viewer standing

Every viewer has one standing: Trusted, Good standing, Probation or Banned.

A standing follows the same YouTube account through name changes, and you can change it yourself. The tray can also start Probation by itself, once a viewer's comments held on Auto reach the number you set. A timed probation ends by itself too. If more than one could apply, Banned wins, then Probation, then Trusted, then Good standing.

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An illustration of a Viewers card, tightly framed on one active probation.

The viewer standing ladder

Outcomes

What you can do with it

Know who you're dealing with

Check a viewer's standing before you decide what one new remark means.

Slow a repeat problem

Put a viewer on Probation and the tray can hold their new video comments automatically, as long as its safety checks pass.

Protect a regular

Mark a viewer Trusted and the tray skips name-pattern matching and automatic holds for them. You can still hold their comments yourself.

The path

How it works

  1. Open a viewer

    Start from Viewers, or from one of their comments, and read the history the tray has.

  2. Choose a standing

    Pick Trusted, Probation, or back to Good standing. Banning is separate: only the channel owner can do it, and it always asks you to confirm.

  3. Give a reason and confirm

    Add a reason, confirm the change and, for Probation, choose how long it lasts.

  4. It stays with the account

    The standing stays with that YouTube account even if the name changes. A different account is a different viewer.

Keep going

Useful for

Use cases and plans

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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