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its features so far:

- removes posts from specified users faster than the users can post.

- easily add/remove users to/from the ban list by mailing the thread OP with a specific char sequence + password which is set by the bot operator(which can be given to others with out giving the OP account password so they can manage the bot and thus moderate the thread without access to OP account)

- a mail notification sent to banned users. (once variable ban times are added, itl notify them of how long they are banned for)



things still to be added:

- multi thread monitoring

- variable ban time, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, permanent etc.
     i) choice between choosing ban length or "three strikes your out" system.

- btt mail sent to bot admin on request, outlining who is on the ban list, for how long, and who is currently included as an admin.

any suggestions welcome. more of a project just to learn but if people would find it useful, ill probably open source it.

Something similar already exists and it is currently active on the forums. That being said, it would be an amazing tool for forum admins if it works just like what we have here on bitcointalk.

have you a link to where i can see more info about the other solution? or is it an internal tool for actual btt mods/admin your talking about?

As far as I remember Mitchell has a bot which does something Similar (the mod I mean).Also mind moving it to Project Development Section ? Much exposure for developers there.

How you'd you know a particular user is spamming ? Plans to use NLP ?

its a bot for self moderated threads, so what is considered spamming would be up to the thread moderators.

not sure how to move the thread

Self moderated threads can pretty much be used to remove the unwanted posts by the thread moderators.Do you really think we need a bot for that ? Also if the bot needs the user to sign up using a third party link ,forget it,no one would risk putting their passwords on other links.There is not a specific API of smf you can access ,as far as I know,curl is used to parse data .Not sure about actual moving the thread,mods will do the needful.Just for information you can move the thread by clicking on move thread option on the bottom left side of the thread.

not a clue if we do or not.. actually its come in quite handy over in nem. it probably is over kill, but as i said, it was more of a learning project than something to fill an actual need.

no need to sign up. the app would run where ever the user sets it up and perform all operations on that machine.

If that is so, then this doesn't really make sense:
As a started of a self-moderated thread, you can delete any posts that you want in it, but you can't ban people from it. Technically you could "ban" them by constantly deleting their posts for X amount of time, but that is different from an actual ban.

Determining what spam exactly is tends to be quite hard at times (even for humans). How exactly would your bot know whether this very post is on-topic or isn't?

ill use the xem thread as an example.

run by a genuine team and all that free speach bla bla bla but we had real problems with users who were a complete nightmare. as the treads couldnt be monitored full time and it was a pain to be constantly deleting posts it was decided that a bot would be set up. the bot just scans for posts from those users and deletes them so fast that no one would very often load the page in the second that the post is there so it appears as tho they are banned but as you said its not quite the same. users would, after agreement of about 6-8 people who are deeply involved in nem and most likely after calls from the community, get the ban hammer and they would be added to the bot. it was very effective at resolving the issue

There's no information regarding this bot for obvious reasons. You'd have to contact Mitchell but I doubt you'll be given any info.