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Automated Comment Snob Filters YouTube Detritus

by Tim Stevens on September 14, 2008 at 05:21 PM

Automated Comment Snob Filters YouTube Detritus
Dropping by the comments section on the average video on YouTube isn't going to do much for your faith in humanity. Flame wars, racism, idiocy, and just plain bad grammar can easily be found all within the span of a few posts. There's not much those hosting the videos can do, as trying to filter every comment would be a full-time job. But, YouTube fans can finally automate that process to a degree by using the Comment Snob Firefox browser plugin.

The Comment Snob will let surfers set criteria for which comments are up to muster. Users can filter posts with excessive punctuation, misspellings, too many capitalized letters, and of course, profanity. The rules are totally customizable and, with a little tweaking, you can make your YouTube viewing experience much more pleasurable -- now if only we could get YouTube to integrate this into the site itself. [From: The Telegraph via DownloadSquad]

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