Title: Compassionate Comments
Author: Ian Dunn
Published: <strong>June 4, 2019</strong>
Last modified: December 9, 2020

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Compassionate Comments

 By [Ian Dunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/compassionate-comments.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/compassionate-comments/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/compassionate-comments/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/compassionate-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compassionate-comments/)

## Description

Why do we have tools to check our spelling, but not to check if we’re being kind
to each other?

This plugin checks the intent of a comment before it’s submitted. If the author 
is being rude or disrespectful, it will encourage them to think twice, and give 
them a chance to rephrase their comment to be more kind before they submit it.

Google’s free [Perspective API](https://www.perspectiveapi.com/) is used to determine
the characteristics of the comment, which means that all comments will be sent to
their servers for analysis. You can optionally request that they not store your 
comments for their future research.

The Perspective API can only analyze comments written in English, French, and Spanish.
Comments written in other languages will be submitted without any analysis or content
warnings.

The inspiration for this comes from Tristan Harris’ TED talk about [designing technology to reflect human values](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55ctBYF3AY)
and from [ReThink](http://www.rethinkwords.com/).

You can [report bugs and contribute on GitHub](https://github.com/iandunn/compassionate-comments).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The warning a comment author is shown when submitting a toxic comment.
 * [[
 * The wp-admin settings screen.

## FAQ

### Is this plugin secure?

I’ve done my best to ensure that it is, but just in case I missed anything [I also offer a security bounty](https://hackerone.com/iandunn-projects/)
for any vulnerabilities that can be found and privately disclosed in any of my plugins.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Good idea!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-idea-70/)󠁿

 [aptharsia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aptharsia/) January 6, 2020 3 replies

This could be an amazing plugin but needs documentation to set up and when I was
testing it harmless comments would get the popup asking if you wanted to edit or
submit anyway, no matter the percentage I picked. Hope to see this evolve.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Compassionate Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ian Dunn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/)

[Translate “Compassionate Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/compassionate-comments)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/compassionate-comments/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/compassionate-comments/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/compassionate-comments/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/compassionate-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### v0.1 (2019-06-03)

 * [NEW] Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.6.17**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compassionate-comments/)
 * Tags
 * [abuse](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/abuse/)[bullying](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bullying/)
   [comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[moderation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/moderation/)
   [toxic](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/toxic/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/compassionate-comments/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ian Dunn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compassionate-comments/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://rethinkwords.com/contribute)