Hiding "toxic" messages using the Google Perspective API?

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

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Pre-emptively warning a contributor about the toxicity of their post

I was perusing through the Discourse feature and moderation lists while thinking about various enhancements that could be made to the platform. I stumbled across this post that was focused on how implementing various moderation features to the League of Legends chat dropped the number of offenders down 40-50% and generally improved the chat space. This got me thinking - could you use machine learning to proactively moderate a post? As a user is typing, their text could be analyzed for toxicity…