Cutting Through the YouTube Comment Cruft
YouTube has become a web legend for its astoundingly awful comment threads. We’re not sure how it managed to overtake Digg and Slashdot in the inanity department, but it most definitely did. While we hold out high hopes for the sardonically named Stupid Filter, in the mean time we have solution for YouTube comments.
Andy Biao recently pointed out YouTube Comment Snob, a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube threads.
The extension allows you filter YouTube comments based on the following criteria:
- More than x# spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox’s built-in spell checker.
- All capital letters
- No capital letters
- Doesn’t start with a capital letter
- Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
- Excessive capitalization
- Profanity
If you’re thinking that won’t leave many comments visible, you’re right, but sometimes it takes serious measures to cut through the cruft.
The only real downside is that the extension only works on YouTube. We’d love to see a version that works on any site.
[Photo from waxypancake, Flickr.com]
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