Hello,
if you are not familiar with the tool, here's the initial post : https://steemit.com/downvotes/@howo/introducing-downvote-control-tool-an-open-source-downvote-tool
tl;dr : This is a tool designed to empower everyone to downvote by creating a toolbox with lots of parameters so that everyone can have their own customized downvoting campaign and target just what they believe is abuse.
You can already find all of the updates live on https://downvotecontrol.com
Sorry for the latness of the last update ! Most of the changes have been live for a while but I couldn't find the time to write a post about it.
I am still working on the tool from time to time but this is no longer my main focus as I am now working on another proposal, basically testing, reviewing and documenting the next hard fork (smt). I would greatly appreciate it if you could review it and vote on it. Here's a link tot he proposal : https://steemit.com/sps/@howo/testing-reviewing-and-documenting-the-smt-hard-fork
I spent quite a while to write a lot of comments on the backend and the bot part of the tool, for the non developers, it's all the places that actually do the work. I didn't comment the front end (the website that is displayed) because it's simple enough to understand for anyone.
Documentation is very important because the code might be open source but if it's complicated for another dev to submit pull requests, it's value to the community is greatly diminished. And since I will no longer be actively developing it. It was important to make sure that anyone can work on it.
This is also part of the "make the tool as simple to develop on by others". I reworked how the settings got saved internally so that it is much easier to add new rules to the tool.
Speaking of rules, I added a new button that allows you to revote. Let's say you are countering the downvotes from an user : bob.
bob downvotes for 1$, so you counter it and upvote for 1$. But then seeing that you countered his downvote, bob changes his downvote to 5$. Previously the user would suffer from 4$ worth of downvotes. But with this option, downvotecontrol will detect that, and revote accordingly.
note that it is off by default. So you will need to login and enable it.
This works for all of the current trails, so trail downvote, counter upvote and counter downvotes.
I have added a date filed for the executed votes, it makes sense to know when you downvoted things after all. The table allows you to sort your votes by date (old to new/ new to old) and it is compatible with the search bar, so you can search for a specific date on it :
I also looked into some bugs that some users came back to me with and fixed them :
So that's it for this update. I wish to thank you all for your support on this proposal, and hope you will consider voting on my next one : https://steemproposals.com/proposal/50.
the project is not dead, it development will just be much slower. Feel free to submit feature requests and bugs as issues on github : https://github.com/drov0/downvote-control-tool-bot
