HypathiaBot is a modular Python Discord bot I shipped between May and July 2025 to help communities moderate themselves without burning out human mods.
The architecture is deliberately pluggable: Redis caches hot paths, Docker packages predictable deploys, and discord.py handles the gateway and slash-command surface.
Moderation blends classical NLP with models: NLTK does fast sentiment and lexical signals, while the OpenAI API handles edge cases that need richer judgment. At peak it ran in three servers covering more than a hundred active users and north of eight hundred messages per week.