Are you a delicate flower? Do spelling mistakes and profanity in comments feeds make you cringe? YouTube Comment Snob may be for you. This is a Firefox extension that filters out “undesirable” comments fro YouTube comments threads. The following rules are available:
- 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
Find myself struggling like Kirk under an alien influence. Must. Not. Make. Offensive. Remark…
Update Language Log has since had a recent spate of posts about similar products. Geoffrey K. Pullum and Mark Liberman post about SpinSpotter here and here, and Arnold Zwicky takes on apostrophree here
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