Hi everyone, I’m exploring the sentiment analysis feature available in the Discourse admin dashboard (Admin > Dashboard > Sentiment) and I have questions about how it works: How is sentiment assigned to posts? Is it based on a machine learning model, keyword matching, or a combination of both? Ar…

Sentiment is part of the ai plugin. You can read more about it here: [image] Discourse AI - Sentiment Site Management bookmark This topic covers the configuration of the Sentiment feature of the Discourse AI plugin. person_raising_hand Required user level: Mod…

Thank you. Is there a way to adjust this? We’ve noticed that sentiment is only assigned to a small number of posts. Since we find this feature very helpful, we were wondering whether there is a way to expand or configure the sentiment classification so that it applies to more posts. Alternatively,…

Backfill for older postsare controlled by this setting: [image] Discourse AI - Sentiment :information_source: Once enabled, Sentiment will automatically classify all new posts and backfill posts from the last 60 days via a scheduled job that runs every 5 minutes. To backfill posts older than 60 …

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! I was able to find the Sentiment classifier agent. However, I’m unable to edit its prompt, even though I have admin access. The fields appear to be locked or read-only. Is there a specific permission or configuration that needs to be enabled to allo…

Hmm… if I am not wrong, you can’t edit them (yet?). You could self-host a custom LLM if you’re very eager to tweak it though.

Yes, I’d like to customize it. What do you mean by LLM? Do you mean creating my own agent?

I’m not as familiar with this, but you can check this out: [image] Self-Hosting Sentiment and Emotion for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting The Discourse AI plugin has support for requesting emotion/sentiment classification of new posts, which is stored in the database…

Classification in the Discourse Sentiment Dashboard

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) June 10, 2026, 2:47am 10

I’m not as familiar with this, but you can check this out:

Though I am not too sure to what extent you can customize the prompts. It’s fixed a for a reason, as they are quite fine-tuned for better accuracy, if I am not mistaken.

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Classification in the Discourse Sentiment Dashboard

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