Random comment picker | A simple use case for the Steem Comment Blacklist API
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A few days ago, I wrote a post about The Steem Comment Blacklist API released for testing! Let me reiterate that whilst the list is titled a blacklist, being on it doesn't mean you are necessarily a "bad thing" on this platform. Rather, its primary purpose is to give Steem developers some idea of whether a comment was actually made by a human (and not a comment bot).
A real simple example I thought of is to create a random comment picker bot (yes...this bot is on the blacklist too!). You could use this to award some sort of prize to actual commenters on your post. Another use is for raffle draws and contests. Some people use https://pick.esteem.ws, but it doesn't discriminate comment bots:
Of course, you could also use a generic random picker like https://www.random.org/lists, but you would have to manually copy all the data in.
These web apps work totally fine but become fiddly on mobile (or if you're just plain lazy!). So to create a simple demonstration using the The Steem Comment Blacklist API, you can simply comment $random-winner
in any post to select a random winner. Supplying an optional number will pick 'x' number of winners. Hopefully no winners selected were comment bots 😉
I hope this is of some use to the community 👍
Yours truly,
@contrabourdon
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Well there you go! I didn't even realise those benefits! Very true, people may post screenshots of a random picker, but how do we know it's not a rigged result?
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Let's see how many comments we can get on this post and then we'll call on the bot :)
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Hmmm, I saw the earlier post about the "blacklist" and had mixed feelings about it - mostly because the name does imply something negative, and I saw one of my favorite bots in the screenshot! However, I do see the value and need for separating auto generated comments from those made my human (I assume 😝 ) hands. Definitely something worth exploring...
And the idea of rewarding a random comment on your posts sounds wicked cool! Thanks for all the neat things you've been contributing to the blockchain, @contrabourdon!
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