Mecene bot v0.0.2: more criteria to choose community to sponsor

mécène: French for sponsor, donator, patron. wiktionary

This is a bot to support communities on the steem blockchain. It automatically upvote the chosen communities tags.

Repository

https://github.com/cryptohazard/mecene

New Features

Minimum voting power

The bot has a minimum voting power at which it operates. Voting is halted if the power is below that minimum.
The API call to chekc the voting power is asynchronous so I placed it in the voter function. Then we can compare it with the minimum allowed:

 if (parseInt(response[0].voting_power) < minimum_power ){
      console.log("Voting power too low to proceed!")
      return;
}

Minimum/Maximum reputation

We can now specify the reputation of the steemians we want to support. You can now target minnows, newbies, or wise old steemians.

Whitelist power

The whitelisted accounts get automatic upvotes on all the articles they publish. You can now choose the voting power percentage in the configuration.

Blacklist tags

Running this bot, I noticed a lot of tag abuse/spam. I already implemented a blacklist and filled it. I noticed some abusers were using the same tags. The idea for the bot is to avoid the tags I am not interested in.

//tags blacklisted
config.blacklist_tags.forEach(function(blacklistTag){
      if (metaJSON.tags.includes(blacklistTag)){
            console.log("Tag blacklisted: ", blacklistTag," for article " + operation.permlink);
      }
});

default values documentation

Option	Definition	Default Values
minimum_power	the minimum voting power at which the bot operates	10 %
minimum_reputation	the minimum reputation of authors	25
maximum_reputation	the maximum reputation of authors	70
voting_weight	vote weight (in percent) to apply on every vote	70 %
voting_delay	waiting time in minutes before the actual vote	30 minutes
whitelist_power	voting weigth for whitelisted authors	70 %

small fixes

• configuration: the bot can run with non essential fields missing thanks to the default values
• bug on vote re-trials: I forgot to call voter with retry set to 0(was set to undefined).

Next features

• tests suite
• criteria per tags

GitHub Account

https://github.com/cryptohazard