Plan B Forum

YouTube Comment Snob automatically hides any comments posted on the video-sharing website that fail to meet a range of good English guidelines. The filter can be set to hide comments with misspelled words, swearing and excessive punctuation.

Comments that do not begin with a capital letter, or which are composed entirely of capital letters, can also be blocked. Users are able to personalise their censorship settings depending on the quality of posts they want to read

YouTube Comment Snob has been created by an individual software designer called Christopher Finke and has no connection to the official YouTube site, which has a separate system that allows users to give a “thumbs down” to comments they disagree with.

The comment blocker, which is only available for people using the Firefox browser, has already earned rave reviews from YouTube regulars.

"Its a bad idea," wrote LJ in the Plan B Forum. "We need to make comment's freely."

“This is a wonderful idea, now all I need is a similar filter for the entire web,” wrote Aletha on the popular Boing Boing blog Plan B Forum," commented the rest of the world.