Detoxify – Detect Hate Speech and Toxic Comments

Thanks for making this available. Most new message boards don't put any effort at all into moderation. It's just a problem for later. But that usually means that you don't even try until after the board has already become hostile. Hostility is met by more hostility and it becomes hard to stop the feedback loop.

By that point it has usually grown past the ability of human moderators, especially if all you have is volunteers. So even a so-so first pass AI to help them out might shortcut the process before that feedback loop begins.

Developers tend not to want to become community designers; it's not their area of expertise. But we've been at this too long to start every message board at zero, just putting data in and out, without any thought to community standards and mores. It's time to do something from the start rather than trying to cram it in after the fact. That doesn't work with security and it doesn't work with community building.