Thanks for sharing! - @azircon

Yup, there is certain freedom here, different from the freedom of the centralized social networks.
Still, try to add the name of the top 5 stakeholders + " are " + your title and let's see how this goes, huh?

:D

By the way, deciding if a post is a "shit-post" by the word count probably made some sense before AI generated content has flooded the net. Also, a bit insulting to the works of the visual artists. I am better with the cameras than words. Plenty of great photographer here too.

No wonder in some communities instead of sharing their own experiences people regularly copy/paste texts from the net, of course, sources provided so it is by the book. :)

Have a great weekend

Appreciate the work. Looking forward to enhancing that curation even more.

I always think this is our home and our neighborhood, if we don’t take care of it who will?

You pass my tests to get a vote :)

There is a lot of auto-voting going on and it is good to apply some criteria to it. With something like hive.vote it doesn't check anything. The criteria you use are entirely up to you.

Do you check any blacklists? I did make use of one to tag people I found for the Britlist.

I'm expecting your script to attain sentience any time now...

I don't mind automation like this thanks for sharing the criteria behind the bot and your thought process. I agree that there are too many leeching from our community. I think we need to figure out ways to get more people stay and stake because that how we all benefit.

One of these days I need to learn to code better. I'm making baby steps. I just recently learned how to use javascript to connect to Hive Engine or Hive and extract some values, like total staked, curation, etc. I'll tackle connecting to HiveSQL eventually.

Anyway, it's all very impressive. I like the idea of all these checks before voting on someone.

I saw my name on the list. Is it a good thing or not? Thanks!

Well done to them splinterlands chaps!!

And boo to the Leeching Arseholes! A splendid term for the motley crew of fuckers that they are 😃😃

I like this type of post because it gives me some ideas of what to look for in hive. You are looking for multiple variables which makes it interesting, despite of some variables i would be a bit more cautious , but just my opinion. Not a while ago i posted about a parsing script to search circle votes in curations. Maybe that variable could interest you . I don’t like to promote inorganically my posts but it can give you more ideas, and also the rewards are expired already :)! Good luck it maybe you will need to break your scripts in many functions to organize it 🤣

https://peakd.com/hive-169321/@gwajnberg/parsing-curation-reports-inleo-example

Did you ever know that you're my hero
And everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle
For you are the wind beneath my wings

How about two language posts, in which one language is merely a machine translation?

Btw are you going to make the bot public for the others to use?

What a revelation!!! Hopefully people will understand better why they're getting no support and change their behaviour

Hey there, the Bilpcoin team just wanted to give you a virtual high-five we manually curated this post.

Their attempts to intimidate and silence their critics are equally concerning. The use of downvotes as a means of censorship is a clear indication of their desperation to maintain their grip on the narrative. But it's not working

https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@themarkymark/re-bpcvoter3-sp2q9h

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Earn BPC on all your posts! Simply add #Bilpcoin or #BPC to your post, and you'll be eligible to earn BPC. Just don't forget to post your own content and avoid self-voting. !MEME !PGM !LOLZ

we are excited to announce our ambitious endeavor to create the largest curation trail on Hive and, by extension, the world LOL

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https://hive.blog/hive-173737/@bpcvoter2/imagine-if-a-big-time-celebrity-like-a-movie-star-football-player-or-singer-joined-hive-and-started-getting-downvoted-what-would

Bad downvotes on Hive are a growing concern that must be addressed. These downvotes not only discourage users from sharing their real thoughts and ideas but also damage the community as a whole, we see many walk away

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Very interesting. So are you using HIVESQL for this now or are you still using Python?

Great work, invaluable!

After a fun first year spending more time on Hive, I'm taking things more seriously in 2025 to be part of my daily habit. For all I know, my account should be in good standing with all your bot checks since I'm keeping all my HP/HBD on the account!

I share Splinterlands strategy every day with my Battle of the Day #BOTD series plus special reports and my end-of-season report card every couple weeks.

I'm also an active math teacher, so enjoy competing for those top spots on the actifit leaderboard, while also treating it like a personal journal and window into life in Brooklyn, NY.

I certainly could stand to step up the curating, but haven't gotten into any delegating. Looking forward to a big 2025 on Hive, PeakD, Snaps, Splinterlands, and everything else this blockchain has going on!

Good read. Nice little teaser for azicon's post on the Splinterlands community too. I'll look forward to that.

Completely beside the content here, but what are you using to color the terminal output? (please say its some simple python package!) The terminal in the cover-photo looks very cool!

Great fun! I was wondering about the actual content: would it pass if it was Ipso Lorem? 😁

All your posts are interesting and this is one of them. I am not a programmer, but it is interesting how a post is selected. From what I see, I am on that list, but I don't know if it is good or bad 🙂.

i find going all liquid just selfish.

so you make a list of creators and then check every post before upvoting? or just check before adding them and review the list from time to time?

One thing i never check is delegations. but you can make an argument for it.

Arseholes indeed.

Even after having those many checks, people managed to get around it easily :|
Unfortunately, curation program I was running is no longer active & one of the reason is you just explained.

Leeching arseholes? I worked for a while at a store that sold products for bleaching arseholes. Completely different subject.

Interesting, I never thought about that, more just looking at the account and see if I like it. I tend to look over the hive sold if they are from a country with high inflation like for example Venezuela.

!PIZZA

i LOVE LOVE that you colour your coding and have it spit out in words that say the person is a "leeching arsehole" rather than "account not eligible" i think i would laugh every time i read that if it was my code.

i remember my dad had a flow diagram on his desk wall in NZ (aviation authority) something similar about dickhead management rules. But alas i can't remember it other than laughing everytime i saw it as a kid.

love that HIVE doesn't censor you for it. if i don't wanna read and engage i don't have to.

love to see what you think of my art and gardening account. If only i want to do better on HIVE. (i would be very upset if you thought i was a leeching arsehole as i actually am trying to put effort into promoting this platform) i'm here to create quality content in my genre.

As you care for the platform, i would love you to let me know if i can improve in anyway.

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I read through this post and what caught my eye was the bit about self voting.
I’ve never fully understood the hive ethics around self voting.
It seems if you have a lot of hp it is frowned upon to self vote, as it is seen as milking the reward pool.
Though I’ve noticed there are still some big hp accounts that do it and yet they don’t seem to face any repercussions.
So in my case, I used to self vote when I was lower hp. It didn’t feel wrong to me. I figured I had invested in hive, I give real effort and time on my blogs or vlogs and I don’t tend to get these big whale upvotes, so me self voting a nickel is fair.
Even now, I’m on an upvote trail that when it votes I give a small vote too, sometimes my post gets voted and so I still get an auto self upvote. For some reason that feels fine to me. That and I’m a lazy fucker and don’t want to figure out how fix self voting upvote trail dilema.
There seems to be so many hidden rules in hive.
Am I a bad hive boy?
Maybe I need a DV bitch slap.
Now I’m not asking to be on your bot list. So I’m not so concerned
whether I’d lose an upvote if your bot discovered my leechery.

My kids account on the other hand. Thebombkids love to self vote🤣
I said to them that some people frown on that on hive. ‘Why’ they both couldn’t understand how if they could give 2 cents to themselves, why wouldn’t they.
But they were both excited to be on your bot list. ‘I wonder if i will get one of those slobber votes’
My son asked recently.

So, this long winded comment is

1. part musing on…. Why is there such unclear hive self vote norms/ethics
2. Will my kids really make them selves ineligible for a vote from your slobber bot if they 2 cent self vote?
   If that is the case. I guess that is a good answer to their ‘why’ question
   If they want to get the slobber….they best stop jerking the self chicken

I hope you are going to be looking at the whales who do this aswell 😂👍🏾

Happy New year to you and your family 🎉🎉🎉

@sagarkothari88 test was unique back then and yet people find ways to exploit it. @slobberchops thank you for the giggles 🤣.

and add another check for posts that have duplicate content such as multi-language posts.

That's probably my ugliest pieace of shi..., ergh, code ever, but I tried to solve a similar issue with one of my scripts and this is how it came out:

from langdetect import detect_langs, LangDetectException as Lang_e

# Check it target language is among the top languages and number of languages
def text_language(text):
    try:
        languages = detect_langs(text)
        num_languages = len(languages)

        # Double-check the presence of the target language to avoid false negatives
        if not any(lang.lang == "it" for lang in languages):
            text_length = len(text)
            half_length = text_length // 2
            first_half = text[:half_length]
            second_half = text[half_length:]
            for _ in range(2):
                languages = detect_langs(first_half)
                if any(lang.lang == "it" for lang in languages):
                    num_languages = 2  # Set to 2 because there's another language
                    break
                languages = detect_langs(second_half)
                if any(lang.lang == "it" for lang in languages):
                    num_languages = 2  # Same as above
                    break
    except Lang_e:
        logger.error(f"Language error: {Lang_e}")
        return False, 0

    # In case there are more than 2 languages, sort and take only the 2 most prob
    languages_sorted = sorted(languages, key=lambda x: x.prob, reverse=True)
    top_languages = (
        languages_sorted[:2] if len(languages_sorted) > 1 else languages_sorted
    )

    contains_target_lang = any(lang.lang == "it" for lang in top_languages)
    return contains_target_lang, num_languages

In my case I was looking both for the amount of languages in the post and if at least one of these was the target language (italian). If you need only the first information you can simplify a lot the function, but the library - despite what it claims - is far from being accurate, so double or triple checking the result is imho mandatory.

I also tried another famous library (can't recall its name) but it was even more inaccurate, so this one with some for loop for me got the job done.

Something like this might be a decent start!

from langdetect import detect_langs, LangDetectException as Lang_e

# Check number of languages
def text_language(text):
    try:
        num = 0
        for _ in range(3): # Checking more times increase the probability of detecting multiple languages, but also increse the chance of getting false positive
            languages = detect_langs(text)
            num_languages = len(languages)
            if num_languages > num:
                num = num_languages

    except Lang_e:
        print(f"Language error: {Lang_e}")
        return 1000 # There's somethig odd, so maybe it's better if this post doesn't get a vote

    return num

How cool is that! And by that I mean your script, not the shitposts 😂

I've been looking at the same issue, but I'm lacking the skills 😂
I asked the question in the HiveSQL discord to see if someone could help me with this.

It would be good to show everyone the amount of rewards that is being given away to low quality, low effort posts.

Another dramatic turn in gleefully displaying how you do it, well I will get to read thoroughly, not right now as it's time to run once again.

!LOLZ thanks for the info!

Leeching Arseholes!!! 🤣🤣

Now there's a turn of phrase!! I like all your rules for the script, all very fair and I'm delighted to benefit from plenty of upvotes from you over the months, so thanks man.

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Ugh, you've put a lot of effort into this, but do you think it's worth it? I understand all these conditions and I agree with them in principle, but what users do with their earnings I don't even care about.
I vote (mostly) only for the content I read and like i. When I get to about 50% power then I stop.
I'm in a few curation trails, but I count on the fact that the curator who reviews a post and initiates a trail has some standards.
There is some content bullshit (but again, that's from my personal perspective) I agree, but I don't think it's so much that the whole Hive system falls.
I think the more significant problems are somewhere else.
Oh, btw. I don't have Binance or any other exchange account. 😀

"...everyone powers down from time to time."

I don't think I have. Pretty sure I meet any thresholds for not being a leech. See what you think from a look at my blog.

I appreciate your intention here, to encourage folks that build Hive rather than extract from it.

Thanks!

Powering Down: BOT will not vote on any account, or posts that are powering down. Stop the power down, and you will be eligible again. It does not hold grudges, does not record these actions and everyone powers down from time to time.

¡LIAR!

Fix your dysfunctional BOT, comrade. And your false narrative too, Urban Explorer!

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