Transformation is also used in enterprise IT to mean modernising.

Transformer is also a mathematics term, a kids toy and many other things.

In short, ML doesn’t have a monopoly on it.

(That you can represent a tensor by a multidimensional array does not mean that a tensor is a multidimensional array).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor

Of course, the same should be applied the other way, so when upvoting, one could also choose to assign a value for "this is good but could be improved", "I have a different opinion, but the above comment is worthy of consideration", "this is simply a correct take" and "this comment is pleasing to me".

And for the sake of readability, maybe instead of the whole comment being coloured, a marker could be applied before or after unadulterated text so that it remained accessible during the course of this process!

The challenge would be in deciding which colors represent what sentiment, as these days even our visible light spectrum seems to be corrupted by political/moral/tribal prejudgements. So perhaps it would do more harm than good. It may make for an interesting experiment, all the same.

this could be called tiny, huge, text transformer: thtt

tiny because functionality, and huge for java