Introducing thanks - A "thanks" bot for STEEM witnesses to thank their voters after their vote

The idea is not mine. After I cast a witness vote to @arcange, I got an instant micro transfer from him with this memo.

I have liked the idea and implemented the bot of it.

Workflow

• Listen new blocks to the forever
• Filter "account_witness_vote" transactions
• Filter if the "witness" is yourself
• Send the voter a micro-transfer like the above.

Of course, bot has a mechanism to check the voter is trying to game the bot. One micro-transaction per user, no matter what.

Installation

(sudo) pip install steem_thanks

All set. Make sure your pip actually points to python3.6. Virtual environments are preferred.

Configuration

Bot works with a config file formatted as json.

Example configuration file (config.json)

{
  "keys": ["active_key"],
  "nodes": ["https://api.steemit.com"],
  "account": "your_account",
  "userlist_file": "/path/to/user_list.txt",
  "memo": "Thank you for the witness vote. :hugging_face:"
}

Option	Description
keys	A list of keys. Only active wif is required.
nodes	A list of nodes. api.steemit.com is preffered.
account	Your witness account
userlist_file	Absolute path of A writable TEXT file
memo	Your text of appreciation. Emojis are supported.

Note: userlist_file is a text file where every voter registered once. It's a defense mechanism to people try to game the system by sending millions of approval/disapproval transactions.

Running

$ thanks /path/to/config.json

See it in action (Free hugs!)

Tech Stack

Python3.6+

Roadmap

It does one thing and doing it well. :) There is no readmap set at the moment. Maybe farewell after witness disapproval?

How to contribute?

Via Github pull requests and Github issues. If you have any questions or ideas, you can also find my at Discord. (emrebeyler#9263)

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