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# Ragnar
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This is an anti spam bot network. It is named after the viking for no obvious reason.
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This bot network works great and is made not to be annoying to the server by not connecting all at once. It's caching certain things like user profile / resolved user id's and if a rant already is flagged for example.
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The bot network removes spam before users of the development community even notice.
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Here's some fan art made by Buffon, a contributor of this project:
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Another one:
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Third one, the legendary bot war of 2024 ended in peace.
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## How they work
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One process starts many bots. These bots look at new rants.
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If there is a new rant:
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1. Check if user has more than five posts. If so, it will not be seen as spam.
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2. It will check certain keywords like hacker / money crypto related.
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3. User will be informed by the bot network that his rant is flagged and what to do about it.
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4. Rant will be downvoted by the bot network making it disappear.
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## Notice
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Some parts of the bot network are not published because they're very sensitive for abuse or specific made to work with my (mail-)server.
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Not published parts are part of the Victoria project:
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- Registering users.
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- Account registration confirmation emails handler.
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- Mass advertisement removal by indexing and scanning the network.
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