Automated detection and rejection of the undesirables
Download the zip from here and extract it anywhere.
credentials.json
needs to have the username and password of the account you wish to run this tool with.
This typically means your primary account, since the account requires sufficient privileges to ban and delete chat posts within your target story.
This does mean storing your credentials in plaintext on your local disk, so be wary of who has access to the machine.
wardedStories.json
needs to list the IDs of the stories you wish to protect.
The story ID can be derived from the story's URL.
For this example story URL:
https://fiction.live/stories/Depravity/ya9v6ZAGRYNnoT9ay/Chapter-7-The-Chapter-With-Horse-Cocks/EvqrzX67ry8KaTdpu
the story ID is
ya9v6ZAGRYNnoT9ay
Using that information, you would make the contents of wardedStories.json
look like
[
"ya9v6ZAGRYNnoT9ay"
]
All files within the spam
folder will be used as a pattern to match against.
A post will match the spam pattern if the entire text of a spam pattern file can be found within the post message.
(whitespace must also match exactly, eg. linebreaks and spaces)
For example:
We have test.txt
sitting within the spam
folder, which has file contents:
test pattern
The following posts will match it:
test pattern
(perfect match)
Does this mesage contain the test pattern?
(extra text before or after does not stop the match from being made)
On no!
test pattern
Argh!
(likewise linebreaks before and after make no difference)
The following posts will not match it:
Does this mesage contain the testing pattern?
(testing pattern
is not the same as test pattern
)
test pattern
(there's an extra space between test
and pattern
so it doesn't match)
test
pattern
(there's a linebreak between test
and pattern
so it doesn't match)
If you're technically proficient, you can specify a pattern to be used as regex instead of plaintext matching by making
a text file with the extension .regex
eg. /spam/test.regex
A handy tool to play with this can be found here.
There are three command files to start the tool:
run.cmd
will start it, with logging showing up in the consolerun-log.cmd
will start it, with logging being funnelled toward.log
- handy if you want to make sure a record of what posts have been detected and removed will remain after stopping the toolrun-dry.cmd
will start it, but posts detected as spam will not be banned or deleted - this can be used to confirm that spam patterns are behaving as intended
Which they inevitably do. A misconfiguration or unlucky poster, a ban issued that was not desired, etc
Simply head to the story's ban list by clicking on the "BANS" item in the hover-over drop down MENU. Here you can see a list of users that are banned, and links to the posts that they were banned for. There are likewise buttons beside these that allow you to unban them.