Give them time to cool off
Choose 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 or 90 days. Nothing they've posted is deleted.
Feature
Timed probation
Set an end date and the probation lifts itself.
Choose 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 or 90 days, or leave it indefinite. Once probation starts, the viewer's new video comments are held automatically. If the tray is paused, it asks you instead. A dated probation lifts itself when its time is up. An indefinite one stays until you lift it. The tray also holds the earlier comments it has seen from them in the last 30 days, unless you untick that option when you start the probation.
Your ViewersExample
Your Viewers
Probation
@sawdust_replies
probation
10 comments on 2 videos · 3 days in · 11 days left
How you treat this viewer
Probation
This viewer is on probation.
Outcomes
What you can do with it
Hold what they already posted, too
Leave "Also hold their earlier comments?" ticked and the tray also holds what it has seen from them in the last 30 days, subject to its usual checks.
Review each new attempt
Their new video comments can be held automatically. No AI is involved, and the tray's safety checks still apply.
The path
How it works
Open the viewer
Read the available comments, channel details, and action history first.
Choose Probation
Add a reason and select a duration or indefinite probation.
Let new comments arrive
Each new video comment can be held automatically, unless the tray is paused, out of YouTube quota or checking a restored backup.
Lift or let it expire
End probation early, or let the tray clear a dated probation after its deadline.
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