moderatehatespeech

This plugin implements ModerateHatespeech.com’s machine learning API to detect and flag potentially toxic and hateful comments. A configurable threshold can be set and comments with scores above that threshold will be sent to the moderation queue for administrative approval.
A free API key from <a href="https://moderatehatespeech.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ModerateHatespeech.com</a> is required.
<h3>Defining Toxic</h3>
We define “Toxic” as “any content a reasonable, PG-13 forum wouldn’t want for content reasons.”
This does not include:
<ul>
<li>Spam or Advertisements</li>
<li>NSFW/Explicit Content</li>
<li>Forum-specific Etiquette</li>
</ul>
This does include:
<ul>
<li>Hate Speech</li>
<li>Verbal Insults</li>
<li>Slurs Directed Towards a Group</li>
</ul>
More details on toxicity, as well as model accuracy and bias can be found on <a href="https://moderatehatespeech.com/framework/" rel="nofollow ugc">ModerateHatespeech.com</a>
This plugin is part of the ModerateHatespeech project, an initiative to research and reduce online hate. Use of the API constitues acceptance of <a href="https://moderatehatespeech.com/terms-and-privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">ModerateHatespeech’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policies</a>.

Auto Comment Moderation

Automatically send toxic and hateful comments to the comment moderation queue.

Ian Dunn

Why do we have tools to check our spelling, but not to check if we’re being kind to each other?
This plugin checks the intent of a comment before it’s submitted. If the author is being rude or disrespectful, it will encourage them to think twice, and give them a chance to rephrase their comment to be more kind before they submit it.
Google’s free <a href="https://www.perspectiveapi.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Perspective API</a> is used to determine the characteristics of the comment, which means that all comments will be sent to their servers for analysis. You can optionally request that they not store your comments for their future research.
The Perspective API can only analyze comments written in English, French, and Spanish. Comments written in other languages will be submitted without any analysis or content warnings.
The inspiration for this comes from Tristan Harris’ TED talk about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55ctBYF3AY" rel="nofollow ugc">designing technology to reflect human values</a> and from <a href="http://www.rethinkwords.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ReThink</a>.
You can <a href="https://github.com/iandunn/compassionate-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">report bugs and contribute on GitHub</a>.

Compassionate Comments

Encourages authors of toxic comments to re-phrase them to be more kind instead.

Auto Comment Moderation vs Compassionate Comments