XSTerminate: A bitcointalk deletebot to rid unwanted visitors from your threads.

[deletebot]

XSTerminate by @deletebot

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Latest version is 0.9.8.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate/
Source Starter Pack: https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate/archive/master.zip
Windows Point and Click: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8rWObF4xz1YYk5xXzg0RGNRdVU/view?usp=sharing

Latest Updates

1/23/14 - Did the recent bitcointalk outage kill your XSTerminate bot? You don't need to worry about that again. Version 0.9.8 will stay live through even the most erratic bitcointalk behavior. I serendipitously tested this version through the recent bitcointalk outage without a hiccup.

What's more! XSTerminate now comes equipped with an option to blacklist users with fewer posts than a user defined cutoff. If your trolls think they are going to get around your luser list by creating new accounts, they need to think again.

12/23/14 - I have fixed several crashing issues related to network errors. The version (0.9.4) should be much more robust than the previous version.

If you use windows, follow the instructions at this post.

11/19/14 - I just fixed a crashing bug that comes from session termination when a user logs out of the bot account in a browser. This happens when the bot is running and the user logs into the bot account in a browser then logs out of the browser session by closing the browser or otherwise purposefully logging out. The bot will now recognize the situation and recover.

Also, getting started in windows is now much easier. Check this post.


Introduction

Let's face it, bitcointalk has become overrun with trolls.

On bitcoin talk, you could begin a thread dedicated to your love of your grandmother and in 5 minutes it would be crawling with trolls calling your own heartfelt feelings a scam, or worse. Of course by using the self moderation option when you create a thread, you can go through and laboriously delete each troll post manually. It's very gratifying but also a lot of work.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a bot that could do this for you?

Well now there is.

Introducing XSTerminate: a bitcointalk deletebot to rid unwanted visitors from your threads.

Using XSTerminate is easy. Just edit the config file according to your user name, password, topic number (found in the thread URL), and a couple of other settings. Then fill in your blacklist, which I like to call the "luser" list. Then, fire up XSTerminate, pointing it to your config file. And, like magic, you will have peace of mind. You can go to sleep knowing that the troll you despise is not going to come back without making a newbie account. And if he does, you can blacklist that account too! You wouldn't even have to restart XSTerminate either. Just edit the luser list and let XSTerminate take care of the rest.

To get started, you can download the XSTerminate program and example files here:
https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate/archive/master.zip

Or, you can go to github and clone the XSTerminate repository at https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate

The contents of the README.md file are below. Enjoy!


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XSTerminate

The Original Bitcointalk Delete Bot

XSTerminate is a bot that can crawl new messages in your thread and delete posts from unwelcome members.

XSTerminate is a python program with only two dependencies: pyyaml and BeautifulSoup.

XSTerminate can run as a daemon in *nix systems or as a console program in both Windows (NT+) and *nix systems. In *nix it can be killed with SIGINT (ctrl-C in the console) or SIGTERM in Windows. In such cases, it will terminate gracefully and save cookie information.


Usage

Code:

xsterminate deletebot.yml

The file "deletebot.yml" is a yaml file with several settings.


Configuration

• user: the bitcointalk username
• password: the bitcointalk password (remove or make null for getpass)
• topic: the bitcointalk topic number found in the topic url
• lusers: the luser blacklist with one luser name per line
• activity: users must have this minimal activity to post
• sleep: be nice to bitcointalk by sleeping between thread reloads
• cookiefile: the file wherein cookies are stored
• debug: prints debug output if set to true; omit or set to false if unwanted

The settings "activity", "sleep", and "debug" can be changed in the config file while the bot is live and the bot will adjust its behavior upon the next reload of the thread messages.


Example Config File: "deletebot.yml"

Code:

# user name at BCT
user : deletebot
# remove or make null for getpass; put in a password for auto
password : null
# BCT topic number
topic : 850210
# file with username blacklist, one per line
lusers : lusers.txt
# minimum activity a user needs to post
# see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444292
# can be modified while bot is live
activity : 5

# sleep this many seconds before reloading new messages
# can be modified while bot is live
sleep : 60

# name of the file where cookies are stored
cookiefile : cookies.lwp

# for development, this can be ommitted or set to false
# can be modified while bot is live
debug : true

Example Blacklist File: "lusers.txt"

Code:

Luser1
Luser2
Luser3

[Altcoin Agent]

Awesome, great job.

A feature I would suggest as well : make the bot "ignore" the user as well. If everyone starts using your bot, the biggest trolls would all have glowing hot "ignore" links under their name.

[deletebot]

Awesome, great job.

A feature I would suggest as well : make the bot "ignore" the user as well. If everyone starts using your bot, the biggest trolls would all have glowing hot "ignore" links under their name.

Great idea. Look for it in the next minor update.

[objectofawareness]

This is great!

XSTerminate is going to frustrate a lot of trolls! 

[EmilioMann]

LOL very nice against shadowcoin fudsters&trolls gang!

[G-Bert]

Haha! Amazing, Great work!

Can it somehow come with some usernames pre built in? 

[sadochismo]

https://twitter.com/sadochismo/status/530809557002760193
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9200425/xsterminate.png

[amiryaqot]

is nice job...

[AlexAtom]

Wining! 

[WigitGetIt]

Pools?  Wallet?  Will this go to Trex?  LOL  joke of course.  Great job!! 

[deletebot]

Haha! Amazing, Great work!

Can it somehow come with some usernames pre built in?  

A community blacklist would be the way to go. I would have put some names in, but I don't want to show my bias too much.  

It's easy enough to load a bitcointalk page from the bot with a curated community blacklist. If someone makes a new thread, I can cull the blacklist from the OP or first post therein, providing the post maintains consistent formatting and if the list and curation process look reasonable. It could refresh every half hour or something.

[YoyodyneSystems]

Hell yeah. Finally -- Innovation!

[EmilioMann]

Haha! Amazing, Great work!

Can it somehow come with some usernames pre built in?  

A community blacklist would be the way to go. I would have put some names in, but I don't want to show my bias too much.  

It's easy enough to load a bitcointalk page from the bot with a curated community blacklist. If someone makes a new thread, I can cull the blacklist from the OP or first post therein, providing the post maintains consistent formatting and if the list and curation process look reasonable. It could refresh every half hour or something.

Yes you mean like a blacklist what the devs don't want their investor to know ? I bet you are .
Scamers are trying to get in control again, once they were exposed for everyone to see. Such embarrassing so weak  wow

XSTerminate was developed by a xst supporter, not by someone from dev team.

[deletebot]

You want to fix the FUD problem on bitcointalk ? Easy, just integrate the jail for newbie accounts for 2 weeks like it was the first time. So they have to wait first before they can just make 1 million fake accounts.

But, i think you rather don't want that because you can't hide yourself when they do this.

You have made 3 successive posts, two containing accusations about motives.

Posters like you are the reason I made this utility. If you didn't think you had an audience here, you wouldn't make a post. You are leeching off my work and my product for your soapbox and accusations. Go create your own thread with your own work and then post your rants there once your product drives an audience. You'll see that no one stops you. That's free speech.

In fact, fork my product if you don't have time to develop your own. It's open source with a very permissive license. You'll find that I won't have any problem with what you do as long as you keep the license intact. I won't even come after you if you forget to put in "(c) 2014, deletebot All rights reserved".

I suggested a community blacklist and did not offer any accounts for the luser list. I singled out no users anywhere. Except for my bias towards XST, I don't show any bias here. I haven't spoken negatively of anyone or any coin. If this was about giving XST some sort of advantage, I would have kept it a secret and shared it with the team instead of making it as open as I could. So please end your accusations and your questions of motives.

If a community makes a black list, it won't hurt free speech. Posters will reform the way they post to avoid getting on a community blacklist. That would promote civil discourse over time, which is something sorely lacking from bitcointalk at the moment.

[WhiteNotWright]

https://twitter.com/sadochismo/status/530809557002760193

[tx42]

Oh man. This is perfect.

[rugrats]

If a community makes a black list, it won't hurt free speech. Posters will reform the way they post to avoid getting on a community blacklist. That would promote civil discourse over time, which is something sorely lacking from bitcointalk at the moment.

Behavior modification achieved through censorship and/or the threat of? Splendid. More power to anonymous devs!
Reminds me of George Orwell's 1984.

• "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?"
• "We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him."

[leewilson]

If a community makes a black list, it won't hurt free speech. Posters will reform the way they post to avoid getting on a community blacklist. That would promote civil discourse over time, which is something sorely lacking from bitcointalk at the moment.

Behavior modification achieved through censorship and/or the threat of? Splendid. More power to anonymous devs!
Reminds me of George Orwell's 1984.

• "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?"
• "We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him."

Nail on the head. Scary times.

[CaptainCrapper]

If a community makes a black list, it won't hurt free speech. Posters will reform the way they post to avoid getting on a community blacklist. That would promote civil discourse over time, which is something sorely lacking from bitcointalk at the moment.

Behavior modification achieved through censorship and/or the threat of? Splendid. More power to anonymous devs!
Reminds me of George Orwell's 1984.

• "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?"
• "We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him."

This is comparing apples to oranges. In Crypto-Land, all it takes is a few posts to destroy a coin. There are many out there who make it a mission to destroy competing coins. This have become very problematic in the realm of alt-coins, especially those in the race for the best anonymity. I admit that I have been guilty of this myself, though it was a matter of retaliation. Letting the free market decide without people FUDing competing cryptos endlessly is actually not a bad idea at all.
The proof will be in the pudding.

[deletebot]

If a community makes a black list, it won't hurt free speech. Posters will reform the way they post to avoid getting on a community blacklist. That would promote civil discourse over time, which is something sorely lacking from bitcointalk at the moment.

Behavior modification achieved through censorship and/or the threat of? Splendid. More power to anonymous devs!
Reminds me of George Orwell's 1984.

• "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?"
• "We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him."

Nail on the head. Scary times.

Programmed thought using language. You should go back and read your Orwell again.

"threat"
"destroy"
"enemies"
"destroy"
"heretic"
"resists"
"destroy"
"capture"
"nail"
"scary"

With that language, you are either attempting to program or have been programmed.

Which is it?