The Litter Tray

Feature

YouTube Studio: Held

The comments YouTube itself is holding, including likely spam, in one tab of your tray.

The tab shows what YouTube's API makes available, and keeps it separate from the tray's own questions and holds.

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An illustration of the held tabs. This tray's own holds and YouTube's held queue stay on separate lists.

Outcomes

What you can do with it

One place for YouTube's queue

Work through YouTube's held and likely-spam comments without leaving your tray. They stay separate from the tray's own questions and holds.

Know who held it

See whether a comment was held by your tray, by YouTube or by someone else before you act.

Choose what happens

For a top-level comment, Publish straight away, or choose Delete comment or Delete and ban user and confirm.

The path

How it works

  1. The tray reads YouTube's queue

    It picks up the held-for-review and likely-spam comments YouTube returns.

  2. Open YouTube Studio: Held

    Each comment shows where it came from, which queue it's in and whether the tray held it. Replies are shown for context only.

  3. Choose the action

    Publish directly, or confirm Delete comment or Delete and ban user.

  4. The result is recorded

    The safety checks that apply run first. Then the tray makes the change and records the result.

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