I run a small Discourse forum with the Perspective plugin, and with the Dec 31 shutdown coming, I finally went and read the plugin code instead of trusting the migration guides.
What I found: when the response has no attributeScores — the shape of an error body — the code rescues to a default of 0.0. Not flagged, not queued for review. Just 0. Connection failures raise a visible error, so that's not the scary path. The error-body path is.
So my question isn't really "which replacement do I switch to." The guides all give mapping tables, but the scores aren't comparable — TOXICITY has no single equivalent on the other side. My thresholds won't survive the move unless I replay my own traffic against the new scorer and see what it actually does with my comments.
Has anyone here actually done that replay — run old and new side by side on real traffic before switching? What did your thresholds end up looking like, and did anything surprise you? Also curious: has anyone checked what their own error handling does today, not just what the guides say?
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