Lately I've been reading more and more in the Bungie forum, because I just want to get a picture of what the D2 community is up to, but some posts are demotivating for me in the long run because of the rather grumpy choice of words. Couldn't you do something to protect other users from bad-tempered opinion posts that spoil the atmosphere? It should indeed be technically possible for you to algorithmically capture the mood of thread creators and visualize it in the form of a toxic meter, so that certain rant posts are not even opened?
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I took a class in college that had a project where we made a mood-reading algorithm, for restaurant reviews I think it was. The problem with translating it to these forums would be 1) it's not always accurate and 2) it can struggle to detect sarcasm/trolling, for example if someone makes a post about getting DC'd on their lighthouse game I might jokingly say something like "skill issue" or "get outplayed idiot" that a human would recognize as a joke but an algorithm wouldn't.