I ve integrated the rules for the 1UP button usage as discussed by @flauwy in here. The merged pull request can be found in here.

The rules

Once the button implemented via SteemPlus, these rules will assure that:

Users cannot upvote themselves

If you check the following example, you can see by looking at the from and url that @steem-plus is trying to vote for one of its posts. Bad bad SteemPlus! Thus, the server returns an error saying :
"You cannot vote for yourself!"

Users cannot vote more than ten times a day

That is an additional feature that I discussed by DM with @flauwy. For the sake of simplicity during the test I set it to 2 posts maximum, but changed it to 10 before upload. This number will be easily changeable in the future.

As you can see, after sending more than 2 votes using cURL, the server refused to save my vote and told me to try again tomorrow.

Users cannot vote more than once a day for the same user

Another great rule to prevent abuses. I tested it in a similar manner by sending two cURLs for @stoodkev to vote a @steem-plus contribution. The first time went well, but at the second one:

As expected, the server rejects my vote.

Other rules

• The minimum reputation of 45 will be checked directly in the front end since it doesnt make sense to display the button at all if users cannot use it.
• More rules to be discussed in the future.

Future work

• Getting SteemConnect to work on the backend for verification purpose only (to make sure that users vote only using the SteemPlus extension)
• Once user identity is verified, take into account their vote into the post list.
• Implement the button on SteemPlus for Utopian
• Adding button information
• 1UP button for other platforms

One step closer!

@stoodkev

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