About three years ago I decided to exercise my Hive programming skills by writing a bot. I had noticed people mis-spelling the #proofofbrain tag and so @proofofbrian was born.
All it does is to look for any of a set of mis-spellings of the tag and then it leaves a comment notifying the user of their mistake. The comment will have a picture of a Brian that I link in from Wikimedia. It will give them a vote too, but the value is tiny. It keeps a list of who has been notified so that they will not be told again.
The bot reached 500 notifications in late 2022 and 850 in July this year. It is slowing down as it only reached 900 a few days ago. Any guesses on when it will reach 1000? It will much depend on how many more users Hive gets as a lot of the active ones who might have used the tag have already been visited. I think at least one person got the tag wrong deliberately to get a comment.
The bot is written in Python and uses the beem library to access Hive. That is not being maintained, so I may look at using something else.
The bot is not running 24/7 as I run it on my main PC when using it. I did try setting up beem on a Raspberry Pi, but it failed at the time. I need to look at that again when I have time.
This is all just a bit of fun with no intention to earn from it, but others can use the code to adapt to their needs. The actual processing is only a few lines. I think we need more examples of coding around Hive. You can do all sorts of things with this vast set of data.
I will give a bigger vote to whoever can name all the Brians above.
I do use the #proofofbrain tag myself and have not been caught out by my own bot, yet.
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The man behind: | @tenkminnows: Helping good Hivers level up @proofofbrian: A bot that checks for tag typos #BritList: A monthly list of Hivers in the UK |
