The Litter Tray

Feature

Training

Settle real review items one at a time and keep your decisions as labelled examples.

Training shows proposed holds and AI assessments for you to review. Your decisions are recorded. They help you judge whether a category is ready for Automatic. You can enable it even when the readiness advice says it is not ready. It does not retrain the AI, and it does not promise a better next call.

Outcomes

What you can do with it

Work through real review items

Deal with the oldest item waiting in Needs review as one focused card.

Keep your decisions

Store each hold or keep choice as a labelled example, including any later change to the label.

Review your saved decisions

Use them to check the policy later.

The path

How it works

  1. Open Training

    The deck draws from the same real work waiting in Needs review.

  2. Read the review item

    See the comment, reason, and relevant context before deciding.

  3. Choose a side

    For a proposed hold, Bad comment approves it and Good comment dismisses the suggestion. For an AI assessment, both buttons only save your judgement; they do not change the comment on YouTube. Skip leaves the item for later.

  4. Keep the record

    The settled item and your label stay in its history.

  5. Practise first if you like

    Settings has a practice tray: ten of your own recent comments, sorted for practice only. Nothing changes on YouTube or in your tray.

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