YouTube Comment Snob
YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal:
- More than # 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
YouTube Comment Snob is compatible with Firefox 2.0 through 3.0.* and Flock.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:55 am
looks nice, but my ideal youtube script would be a word-specific block ability, such as blocking any content/comment that has the words, for example, "cam" (its ALL spam), "LisaNova" (dito), etc
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:03 am
It works because reputable writers make links to things they consider reputable sources. So readers, when they find something distasteful or unreliable, don't just hit the back button once, they hit it twice. They remember not to follow links again through the page which took them there.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:22 am
But can it be used for any site that has comments? I can think of some discussion sites where this would help lower my blood pressure. (I usually ignore comments on YouTube.)
November 7th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Thanks for your work! Now let's see how you'll interact with all the junk coming from social blogs, social networks, social software and the whole good load from web 2.0 ;) Tough luck on that!
January 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I just tried this an it doesn't seem to be working. Using the latest nightly firefox (3.0b3pre?). It installs, but doesn't hide comments beginning with lower case letters. The settings default to all being on.
Could it be that the extension is out of date? I guess YouTube's site changes occasionally.
April 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Extension does seem to be out of date. But was great when it was working, I will keep an eye out for an update.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Doesn't work, no comments were blocked.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Add it to the firefox official add-ons page.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I like the way the first comment here would be blocked.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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April 26th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Please update it for compatibility with Firefox 3b5
April 26th, 2008 at 7:50 am
wouldn't this end up blocking all comments on the count that they all suck?
April 26th, 2008 at 9:50 am
It's been updated today for compatibility with Firefoc 3.0 and YouTube's latest redesign.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
[...] updated YouTube Comment Snob to work with YouTube's latest redesign, as well as to add compatibility for Firefox 3. It's [...]
April 28th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hmm..anyone else make out what that 80 pound butt is saying?
April 28th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Yes, everything is fine, but why do we have to log-in in order to download the bloody extension?
April 28th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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April 28th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
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May 4th, 2008 at 12:02 am
On ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3 beta 5 youtube causes Firefox to become completely unresponsive. Please fix this, as I would very much like to use this extension.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:04 am
almost as idiotic as those it attempts to censor
May 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Can you block the swear words? I, for one, find them VERY offensive. Kids check out this site and what parent wants them to read that?
May 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Ooh! Can this thing also be altered to block comments containing "jajaja"? I HATE THAT, when used in an English-language comment. Makes no sense.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:10 am
[...] n’est pas toujours très fin, notamment sur les vidéos politiques. C’est pour cela que Chris Finke (via Fluctuat) a créé un petit plugin pour Firefox , qui filtre les commentaires sur les pages [...]
May 13th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Is anyone finding that firefox has a MASSIVE memory footprint when using this extension? Firefox becomes unresponsive for me for up to 5 minutes when I click on a youtube link. I like this extension though, help would be most appreciated.
A quick google tells me i'm not the only one: http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+comment+snob+memory
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=50277&forumId=1
May 14th, 2008 at 9:02 am
backstabb: I've fixed the performance problems in version 1.2: http://code.google.com/p/youtube-comment-snob/downloads/detail?name=youtube-comment-snob-1.2.xpi