Abuse Protection

The bot has several mechanics to prevent users from receiving or giving reputation without a reason.

The settings mentioned here can be modified via the abuseprotection command.

Backthanking

Setting: cooldown

When User A thanks User B they get a cooldown for each other. During this cooldown, User B can not thank User A again and vice versa.

However, User A can thank any other user during this time, as well as User B.

Receiver and Donor Context

To determine which users are eligible to receive and donate reputation we build a context for every message which contains a thankword.

Receiver context

Setting: context receiver, message age and message min

The receiver context defines which user can receive reputation in the thank message. To find these users we search the oldest message of the user which wrote the thank message inside the message age (Max 100 messages and 12 hours old). All users which have written a message after this are eligible to receive reputation.

We will also add the users which wrote the last x messages defined by message min as long as these are not older than 12 hours.

Users which share or shared a voice channel in the message age minutes are also added to the receiver context.

Donor context

Setting: context donor and message age

The donor context checks if the user has at least one more message in the message age in the channel. Additionally, we check if the user was in a voice channel currently or in the message age minutes.

Outdated messages

Setting: message age and message min

Messages which are older than the message age (or older than 12 hours) are considered outdated. Messages which are older than message age and not older than 12 hours and are one of the x last messages defined by message min are never considered outdated.

Ghost reputation

If a user thanks someone and deleted its messages the reputation will be removed as well.

Max reputation per message

By default, the bot will limit given reputation to three users per message and embed request. You can change this value with the message reputation setting.

Donor and Receiver limit

Setting: limit donor and limit receiver

You can limit the total given and received reputation of users with these settings. The time frame for the count is given in hours. You could for example define that a user can give 10 reputation in 24 hours.