Exploring sndbox members with a little bit over-engineering

Hello,

I have joined to @sndbox this month. I am very excited to be a part of this community.

However, one thing I didn't do well yet -due to my limited time lately- exploring the people in the @sndbox. Today, I have decided to explore the fellows.

Let's play the Blockchain detective! (Source)

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I had a couple choices for this exploration.

• Explore the tag and people via sndbox tag.

This list may include the people expecting a sndbox vote by just tagging it.

• Read our internal post-promotion channel till the beginning.

Hard to keep state. Considering Slack's interface.

• Write a script fetches the last sndbox votes and their authors. Make sure the post has the tag #sndbox.

Being a code monkey is hard, you end up writing small scripts for that kind of scenarios. And of course, I have chosen the last option.

Code Monkey - Source

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Planning

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1. Follow @sndbox account's latest operations
2. Filter them by votes
3. Skip self-votes.
4. Skip the posts do not have a @sndbox tag.
5. Get the list!

While I was doing that, I was informed that I can get the same list via follow list of sndbox. Sometimes, I have lose faith in me. I fail to see simple answers but since we have started something, let's finish it gently.

My latest post on "steem-python for dummies" series includes a small script to monitor specific accounts' movements in the network. Let's use that code and change a little bit:

See the source in text format

Which results like this:

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But this doesn't add much value to my cause yet. Maybe, following them automatically can ease my exploring mission today.

my_acc = Account('emrebeyler', Steem(keys=["wif"]))
following = list(my_acc.get_following())
for author in authors:
    if author in following:
        print("Skipped. Already following that user. %s" % author)
        continue
    if author == 'emrebeyler':
        continue
    s.commit.follow(author, account='emrebeyler')
    print("Following %s" % author)

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Done. All set. All followed. I am out to explore my new feed.