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# Ragnar
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This is an anti spam bot network. It is named after the viking for no obvious reason.
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Fan art made by Buffon, a contributor of this project:
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I'm not happy about the quality of the source and it is not a representation of my usual work. If I would've spend more efford there would be some types and I've would use aiohttp and would've used context managers for example. Despite the source lacking a certain quality, the bots work great and are made not to be annoying to the server by not connecting all at once and caching certain things like user profile / user id and if a reand already is flaged for example to not annoy the server.
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The bots have user name no-spam[1-4] but flag under a Russian girl name, also for no obvious reason. I liked it more than some technical name. Will probably rename the bots later. Could be that devRants prevents me to do that within a half year. It doesn't matter much, if the bots do a good job, we will barely see them.
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I expect this project tomorrow to have deployed fully functional on a server.
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## In progress
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The bots work perfect in sense that they're doing what they're programmed to do.
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But the programming is not finished yet:
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- the criteria can be better, tips how to optimize are very welcome.
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- at this moment, they can only flag, useless, but we will have indication of future content to be cancelled. Every spam message should have a flag. If not, contact @retoor.
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- the downvote function doesn't work because I couldn't figure out what value I had to post. Who knows it? After this, it's kinda done.
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- a decent deployment on my server. Now it runs on my laptop because it's not done yet and it got late.
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## How they work
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One process starts four bots named no-spam[1-4]. These bots look at new rants.
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If there is a new rant:
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1. check if user has more than five posts. If so, it will not be seen as spam.
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2. it will check certain keywords like hacker / money crypto related if so continue to step 3.
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3. user will be informed by the bots that his rant is flagged and what to do about it.
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4. rant will be downvoted by the four bots making it disappear.
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