Discussion on No YouNoobs - Hide YouTube Comments | Userscripts.org

Individual comment blocking, replied by slavix

slavix — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:29:52 +0000

There is a new script available Slavix for Youtube http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/39751 which allows individual comment blocking. You can block all comments by a specific person and see how many other users of the script blocked comments by that person.

New, updated version, replied by Timothy Butwinick

Timothy Butwinick — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:17:30 +0000

Hi, this project seems to have been dead for over a year and did not work with Youtube's new appearance, so I took the liberty of updating the script. Here's the new script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/37633 .

Since it's a fairly simple script, I also wrote instructions for anyone who might be interested in updating it in the future, should I lose interest/not notice/otter. I just wish Youtube themselves would provide an option (with cookies) to keep the comments hidden. The speech synthesis unfortunately doesn't seem to work as intended.

Archived Comments, replied by David Gelbart

David Gelbart — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:27:09 +0000

Since this script doesn't seem to work anymore, here's another approach that's working for me:

Comments are scored, and on the page for any video with comments YouTube allows you to set a minimum score below which no comments are displayed. Setting this to "excellent (+10 or better)" almost always hides every comment. And the minimum score setting is remembered for the next few videos you see. The problem is that this minimum score setting eventually expires and is forgotten. To stop the setting from expiring, you can install the Add N Edit Cookies Firefox extension, then choose Cookie Editor from the Tools menu, and Edit the expiry date of the YouTube commentthreshold cookie (which stores this setting) so that it will not expire until far in the future.

Archived Comments, replied by nissansilvia

nissansilvia — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:34:43 +0000

No...NO!!! YouTube has changed its comments system! This script doesn't work anymore! Must find another script...

Archived Comments, replied by bobielawlintine

bobielawlintine — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:13:47 +0000

Nice script, too bad it doesn't actually do anything.

Archived Comments, replied by nissansilvia

nissansilvia — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:54:24 +0000

Thanks for this script! YouTube comments are bad for your psyche...

Archived Comments, replied by Jeremy Halvorsen

Jeremy Halvorsen — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:41:24 +0000

nice script, i love all these scripts i'd never think of. youtube comments are like a train wreck (much like digg comments) and i'd much rather not have to read the inanity. I'd do the same for digg if it wasn't for all the comments for mirrors. thanks

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:41 +0000

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