Additionally, it could be useful if a topic sentiment analysis plugin could have the option of taking an automatic action if sentiment started dropping… for example, closing the topic for 24 hours to let everyone cool off (I’d just caution that the weight of sentiment should be spread across participants so an individual couldn’t game the system to force a topic to auto-close).
I’m more interested in this the more I think about it. One of the weaknesses we found in analyzing sentiment of individual posts was that the Perspective API had no idea when someone was joking or being sarcastic… if the sentiment of replies is being measured at the same time, that would potentially be a stronger signal (because if someone is actually being abusive, the sentiment in the replies will more likely be bad too!)