RE: userspam - @SearchVoat. @SearchVoatBot is the end causing the problem maybe (voatdev)

submitted ago by theoldones

the spam pings arnt coming from the voat end. they're coming from your bot

what option does a user have to NOT get pinged from certain other users via the searchbot?

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SearchVoat ago

Sorry for the inconvenience. I foresaw this kind of issue when I announced the bot:

If you don't want to be pinged by these cross-link notifications tell me. I can suppress the ping on a user-by-user basis.

Just let me know.

theoldones ago

might be an idea to add that bit to the small text that goes at the bottom of each bot post, rather then only in the help thread

@Dortex's spam is an insane problem and he's exploiting your bot. can you please cut off his pings for me? thank you for responding on this

SearchVoat ago

Oh, sorry, I just realised I misunderstood the mechanism. It's not a "comment mention" ping to the linker, it's a "reply to your post" ping to the linkee. I can only suppress those by not posting the notification at all. Will take me a while to set that up. On it.

theoldones ago

excessive unwanted pings being intercepted before posting, can probably be tracked to help you catch problem cases right away on your end