Utopia AI Moderation question:

[Former Member]

Hello, hello. I have been using ProBoards for a few years now, and I really enjoy the communities made with Proboards that I help run and participate in. I have moderated for a few forums in the past, and I'm currently moderating for a relatively active site. This forum has decently strict posting guidelines and we have the "Post Quarantine" plugin, thus making it that all posts must be approved before going public.

However, with that being said, I recently found a very interesting artificial intelligence service used by many forums, chats, etc, in order to automatically moderate posts. If it finds a post acceptable it will automatically be accepted. If the post is unacceptable, the poster gets a rejection alert, and the post is automatically deleted. Finally, if the AI is unsure of whether the post should or shouldn't be approved, the AI flags the post, and notifies human moderators to decide on what to do with the post. The forum owners and human moderators can decide on the rules the AI should go by, and it's supposedly very effective (though I haven't tried it out yet).

These are some good info videos/articles if you're interested:
utopiaanalytics.com/utopia-ai-moderator/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgog965ccT0

My question is as follows:
Is there a way to integrate this Post Moderation AI into ProBoards forums, somehow? If so, then how would I go about adding this to my forum? If not, could this be a feature request for the future?

Thank you for taking your time reading this, and I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question. Thank you.

[?adwoman?]

are you looking for this?
support.proboards.com/thread/471626/post-quarantine-library-support

[Former Member]

Oct 25, 2020 11:41:43 GMT -8 ?adwoman? said:

are you looking for this?
support.proboards.com/thread/471626/post-quarantine-library-support

Nope. We already use that. What I'm looking for is a way to use the Utopia AI Moderator to make it that AI moderate your forum's posts, somehow.

[Kami]

Oct 25, 2020 11:44:51 GMT -8 @smithj said:

Oct 25, 2020 11:41:43 GMT -8 ?adwoman? said:

are you looking for this?
support.proboards.com/thread/471626/post-quarantine-library-support

Nope. We already use that. What I'm looking for is a way to use the Utopia AI Moderator to make it that AI moderate your forum's posts, somehow.

So, probably not. Part of the developer guidelines is that all requests to the server must be made by a human -- you can't make any plugin that automatically sends a server request (which submitting or deleting a post would do) without a real user's interaction. This is how the post quarantine plugin works and why it needs manual approval. Based on that i would 99.99999% guarantee that a bot that sends server requests would be disallowed, with the 0.00001% remaining being if PB themselves came up with a plugin to do so (along the lines of other PB official plugins as opposed to a third party plugin). But if they went that route, they might as well just automate it into the software.

I can't speak to the chances of this being a successful feature request but the possibility of it is higher (more than 0%) than being allowed to make requests to the server with a plugin (0%).

[Michael]

This is something we've considered in the past (developing this system ourselves) and it may turn into a feature sometime in the future. I'll leave the Feature Request label on this.

[Former Member]

Oct 26, 2020 11:06:52 GMT -8 Michael said:

This is something we've considered in the past (developing this system ourselves) and it may turn into a feature sometime in the future. I'll leave the Feature Request label on this.

Thank you for considering this request!