Fetching all 1UP-able Utopian posts in a routine

Last improvement of the Utopian bot was a serious hit to 1UP. Indeed, upvotes happen right after moderation, and therefore do not leave time to vote for the contributions on 1UP.

All Utopian posts will soon be 1UP-able, before moderation if they correspond to the criteria below:

• The post user utopian-io tag
• The post as utopian.pay as beneficiary (to prove that it's posted through the platform)
• The post is less than 7 days old (obviously)
• The post has not been flagged
• The post has not been upvoted by utopian-io yet

New Features

This iteration was in charge to fetch all those posts from Utopian and make sure they correspond to the features listed above. Sadly the Utopian API that you can find here does not allow to get the posts that haven't been moderated yet.

So I had to fetch it all in our own database using the following flow :

• Fetch the 100 latest posts using the utopian-io tag using steem.js
• If they correspond to all the parameters listed above, add them to the database using Parse
• When finding a post that is already in the database or older than 7 days, stop the process

This will be run in a cronjob launching every 10 minutes.

So far, 399 posts correspond to these conditions for this week.

Future work

• Another cronjob will have to fetch and destroy the posts that are no longer votable
• A new tab will appear in the front-end where these posts will be displayed, possibly by categories, for users to find them as easily as possible and upvote them directly
• Penalty system will be implemented to prevent abuse now that unmoderated posts are 1UP-able.

1UP will rise again!

@stoodkev for @utopian-1up

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Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors

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