Hide The Awful YouTube Comments, Keep the Good Ones

Ha! You have to appreciate the ingenuity of something like the Firefox extension YouTube Comment Snob. This plugin hides the horrid and profane comments written by the adolescents, griefers, and other freaky creatures that seem to inhabit YouTube waiting to leave their grammatically incorrect, foul, and otherwise unreadable comments underneath all the videos on the site.

The extension works by blocking any comments that are in ALL CAPS, have no capital letters, don’t start with a capital letter, use excessive punctuation (!!!! ????) or excessive capitalization, or contain profanity. You can even customize one option to block any comments with X number of spelling the mistakes – the “X” being the number of mistakes you decide qualifies someone as troll-worthy.

Can I just say…genius! (Now, can we have one for Digg, too?)