Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
My partner, Nick Hodges, and I, David Millington, have been on the Internet for a very long time -- since the Usenet days. We’ve seen it all, and have long been frustrated by bad comments, horrible people, and discouraging discussions. We've also been around places where the discussion is wonderful and productive. How to get more of the latter and less of the former? Current moderation tools just seem to focus on deletion and banning. Wouldn’t it be helpful to encourage productive discussion and teach people how to discuss and argue (in the debate sense) better? A year ago we started…
Respectify is a comment moderation tool that helps foster productive online discussions by teaching users to argue more effectively. Rather than simply deleting or banning problematic comments, it suggests improvements… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit. Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer. What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not. You can try this for yourself on, https://www.reveddit.com…
2022 · cantsayanything.win · its alternatives →
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Replyke▲346APIs for user content, social graphs, and moderation tools
2025 · sublay.io · its alternatives →
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Commented▲766Simplify feedback, keep your team aligned, no live meetings
2023 · commented.io · its alternatives →
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Eden▲531One-click create comments on any webpages with AI
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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MarkUp▲442Turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback
2020 · markup.io · its alternatives →
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Discourse 2.0▲291Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨
2018 · blog.discourse.org · its alternatives →
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2023 · opinionate.io · its alternatives →
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Simple Commenter▲212Hey HN, I'm Aleksander, and I built Simple Commenter to solve a problem I faced as a freelance web developer. This tool simplifies client feedback by allowing comments directly on your website with just one line of code. It works seamlessly with platforms like WordPress, Shopify, and Webflow. The backend is user-friendly, making comment management easy. If you're dealing with similar challenges, check it out!
2024 · simplecommenter.com · its alternatives →
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Instantly see who's talking about any AI on YouTube & TikTok
2025 · toolify.ai · its alternatives →
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Whatfix Comments▲205Add comments and collaborate anywhere on the web
2023 · whatfix.com · its alternatives →
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Feedback and collaboration tool for building web apps
2019 · feedbackhero.io · its alternatives →
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Penify▲168Blog platform to create your own blog effortless.
2024 · penifyapp.com · its alternatives →
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Commentblocks▲101Hey HN, I'm a freelance web developer and got tired of the endless email chains during website QA. Clients would send screenshots with red circles, or worse, Word docs with "the button on the page with the thing." I'd spend more time decoding feedback than actually fixing stuff. So I built Commentblocks. You add a script to your staging site, send clients a link, and they click anywhere on the page to leave a comment. That's it. No signup for them, no explaining how to use it. Each comment captures the exact element, viewport size, browser, and URL. Comments show up in a dashboard or can go…
Feb 2026 · commentblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Free toxicity detection for content moderation via AI
2022 · moderatehatespeech.com · its alternatives →
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Modagrate▲86Machine and human powered user content moderation.
2019 · modagrate.com · its alternatives →
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Socratify is an AI coach for early stage professionals to sharpen their critical thinking and verbal communication skills Ever since ChatGPT came out, I've been using it to debate and learn new ideas. Having a short insightful conversation where AI coaches you can be powerful but it's hard to get right with a general purpose chat LLM because they don't propose stories, lack context and don't track progression I'm building Socratify with the hypothesis that a product built around AI questioning humans and proposing interesting questions daily can be 100x more rewarding than book summaries and…
2024 · socratify.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I've combined features from Slack (chat software), Discourse (forum software) and StackOverflow (question-answers) into a single piece of software, EffectiveDiscussions. EffectiveDiscussions solves some problems here at HN that annoy me, and you too I would think: 1) When you return to a topic, how do you find the comments added while you were away? 2) It's hard to find the parent comment, if it's far away. Then, once you've found it, it's hard to find the comment you were reading before, somewhere far away downwards. 3) Downvote because disagree or not? Solutions & demo:…
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community! I am excited to share my recently upgraded website, DebateDevil (https://debate-devil.com), an AI chat platform designed to help users practice debates, challenge their ideas, and expand their thinking. I created this site to provide a more objective opinion and help users consider their hypotheses from multiple perspectives. example discussin: ``` AI: The time has come to test your hypothesis and beliefs. I will argue against any topic. What do you want to debate? You: AI will take away most jobs from humans. AI: I understand your concern about AI taking away jobs…
2023 · debate-devil.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built Logosive because I want to see certain debates between my favorite thinkers (especially in health/wellness, tech, and public policy), but there's no way for regular people to make these happen. With Logosive, you propose a debate topic and debaters. We then handle outreach, ticket sales, and logistics. After the debate, ticket revenue is split between everyone involved, including the person that proposed the debate, the debaters, and the host. Logosive is built with Django, htmx, and Alpine.js. Claude generates the debate launch pages, including suggesting debaters or…
Nov 2025 · logosive.com · its alternatives →
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