I was wrong

in blurtdevelopment •  3 years ago 

I was against Coal but the list has been implemented on blurt.blog anyway. Since then I've been watching who gets on it and I have to admit that I was wrong, Coal is a good idea.

I was recently accused of vote farming. I know that many votes go to dishonest users of this blockchain but I will never give up automatic voting because I think it has its advantages. Therefore, I want the community to decide which users should receive automatic votes and which should not. Can someone write a function that will check if the author is on Coal?

This is the code my bot uses
https://github.com/jtomes123/SteemVotingBot/blob/master/steemBot.js

and I need this:

    else if (isCoal(author)
        willVoteFor = false;
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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Awesome, @saboin could you perhaps help here with "Can someone write a function that will check if the author is on Coal?"

@ctime, I had a complaint from a project they say they are losing delegations to support their initiative because if users delegate to other accounts they don't get your vote, is that correct or is there a mistake?

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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I think the problem will be that the COAL list cannot be called using an API function call.
Maybe you could loop the objects of the COAL JSON file by the account names and check if this account is on this list.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I think the best way would be to download this json file once a day to own server via cron job, to the directory where the upvote bot is

https://coal.blurt.live/
is it official COAL?

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

The official COAL list is here on gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/blurt/openblurt/coal/-/blob/master/coal.json
But the entries are the same from https://coal.blurt.live/.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Is COAL a list for developers to use or is it actually used in blurt blockchain to restrict access to users?

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Hey bruv... I say vote as thou wilt...
Let love be the law... Not coal 🤬🥓

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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I don't want to vote on stuff like this
#earthview:
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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I don't see a problem with auto voting system unless we try to use for farming purposes. Because I also use auto voting services for my project in Steemit. But I agree with megadrive's words about delegation services blocking. There are some good delegation services which you might want to accept for your code.

Hello ctime sir , sorry for interrupting here , i wanted to ask that if someone was using delegation services before and then later they stop doing so, will they be getting your support.

Thank you and how can i see the coal list for Blurt.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

will they be getting your support.

Yes, if they are not on Coal, blacklisted for plagiarism or upvoted by https://blurt.blog/@whaaat/feed

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

We don't have any other option to stop plagiarism, spamming, etc, and we don't want downvote, that's why we thought about the COOL tool.


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Hello @ctime thank you for accepting the ideas of the COAL LIST. We must confess that your automatic upvotes have encouraged a lot of new members to keep being active and posting good contents. Most of them have expressed their gladness in the past even in our WhatsApp groups. For this we say THANK YOU. Secondly please kindly review and accept voting accounts with good delegations initiative. @blurtconnect-ng and other curation accounts meets their daily newbie support project with the help of delegations from noble blurt members. A dormant BLURT POWER will not add value to the platform unless delegated for use to curate quality contents. We will appreciate it a lot, if your code receives the amendment it needs to support the accounts of this kind blurt men and Women.Thank you so much boss for your understanding.
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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Greetings my friend. I think that delegations to projects that are committed to doing a clean job is not bad. Even to those projects that are just starting out. Great work you do for the platform, I am at your service for anything I can help.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I'm so happy at blurt because you help us grow. the results of the vote that you give to us is very helpful. Our @ctime from small fish is very grateful for your support so far

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Thank you, your post has been upvoted by @blurttribe.

Curated manually by @obikay

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YOU CAN VOTE FOR OR DELEGATE BLURT POWER TO @blurttribe TO SUPPORT CURATION

Are actifit posts curated aswell?
(My quality could be to low too) 😅

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

You have outgoing delegation...

Ah I see.
I did not delegate to Voting services but to my main account. On most chains the actifit stats are seen as spam so I seperated them to a fresh account. Due to the fact that I curate and comment mostly with my main account I thought it would be a better Idea to delegate it to my main instead of powering it down and then send it over. I removed the delegation to my main - takes some days to be finalized.

Thanks for taking the time to reply to me!
Have a great day.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Dear @ctime, please can you help and walk me through building a bot like yours? Please I would be very grateful if you can help me with this. Do you have any channel with which I can contact you, please? or can you message me via WhatsApp? my number is +2348059061176. I hope to read from you soon regarding this request. Thank you, sir.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

What does on Coal mean? I haven't really been paying much attention to the blurt ecosystem, so I have to admit I'm ignorant to a lot of the nuances of blurt.

Also, your bot is for STEEM. Will that work with blurt?

  ·  3 years ago  ·   (edited)

Could you post a blog about your vote farming drama? Sounds like an interesting read.

BTW, I also like automatic voting. You make friends on blurt and sometimes you read content that from people you eventually get to know. It comes to a point where voting becomes tedious and it's easier to just automatically vote people that you're going to vote for anyway. Also, I like being able to follow my own votes. That is, whatever I've voted on, I go and read. It's a little backwards, but I like the idea of selecting people I want to automatically vote. I read their content later. If I don't like it, I unvote it or remove my vote. It's just easier and less of a bother.