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.

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…

Hi @Lauraruskovic The sentiment is assigned using the following AI models: [image] Discourse AI - Sentiment What models are used to power Sentiment? Currently we are using SamLowe/roberta-base-go_emotions · Hugging Face and cardiffnlp/twitter-roberta-base-sentiment-latest · Hugging Face . S…

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Lauraruskovic June 9, 2026, 10:01am 7

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

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Classification in the Discourse Sentiment Dashboard

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