• YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that lets a Mozilla Firefox user filter out comments on a YouTube video based on spelling errors or profanity. On August 25, 2008, Betsy Schiffman, who works for Wired, wondered why Google hasn't yet come up with a similar tool.Wired: Should Google Block Annoying YouTube Comments? (August 25, 2008)She calls some of the comments people get on Youtube downright mean, and gives credit to the creation of this add on.http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/08/should-google-b/
  
  This extension can find errors and profanity within the comment section of a Youtube page. You will have a choice in what you want to block. You can choose one or more of the following:
  
  

  • More than a certain number (however many you choose) of spelling mistakes
  • All capital letters
  • No capital letters
  • Doesn't start with a capital letter
  • Excessive punctuation
  • Excessive capitalization
  • Profane languagehttp://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/

• 1. Developed by Christopher Finke, who created Slashdotter and NSFW Detector extensionsChrisFinke.com: YouTube Comment Snob Homepage
  2. May be personally programmed to your preferences http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/
  3. Works with Firefox 2 - 3.6 and Flock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7115
  4. Developed to provide a safe environment for parents to browse youtube with their kids http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/11/06/download-youtube-comment-snob-to-filter-bad-language-or-hate-mail/
  5. Works by detecting certain patterns of text, like all caps, spelling errors and bad language http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/11/06/download-youtube-comment-snob-to-filter-bad-language-or-hate-mail/

• About the Developer

  Christopher Finke is a software developer from New Prague, MN. Chris has multiple jobs. He leads the technical development for Emurse.com which is resume builder site. He also manages development for ScribeFire, a Firefox blog editor. The extensions he creates he just does on the side, for fun.http://www.chrisfinke.com/about/
  
  Chris started to notice all the unhelpful comments coming in through Youtube and he wanted to develop a way for people, especially those with kids, to filter out the unnecessary or offensive language. Not everyone will like this add on, but for some people it is convenient, and for others, it's necessary. Chris has created 17 add-ons so far, and is constantly working on more. He is married to Christina Finke and lives with her in Chanhassen, MN. Chris used to be on the team that built Mahalo Answers.http://www.chrisfinke.com/about/

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