YouTube Comment Snob hides badly spelled, profane, poorly capitalized YouTube comments


Here's an idea whose time has come: YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox plugin that nukes comments with too many spelling mistakes, weird capitalization or punctuation, and too much cussin'. It works pretty damned well, too. As XKCD has pointed out in the past, YouTube has the worst, just the worst comment-areas on the Internet. YouTube Comment Snob (via Making Light)

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Cory Doctorow

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* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
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