Suggestions for Bot Improvement

[Mamoosh]

Hi, thanks for sharing your bot's source code! It's really impressive. I have a few suggestions that might help improve it:

1. Report Tool:

It would be great if users could report suspicious accounts, like hackers or compromised ones. I've noticed some anonymous accounts (often named "Free Gift") trying to friend and potentially control bots. A report tool would help protect against this.

2. Comment Scheduling:

Consider adding a feature to schedule comments. For example, being able to spread 300 comments over 3 days (100 per day).

3. Discord Logging:

It would be helpful if the bot could send comment logs to a Discord channel using a webhook. This would allow easier monitoring and troubleshooting.

This version is more concise and uses clearer language. Here's a breakdown of the changes:

More professional tone: Replaced "its a great job!" with "It's really impressive."
Clearer headings: Added headings to separate the suggestions.
More specific language: Replaced "needs too be reported" with "could report suspicious accounts" and "helpful for them" with "help protect against this."
Simplified wording: Replaced "adding time schedule for comment" with "Consider adding a feature to schedule comments."
Conciseness: Removed unnecessary words like "also I have to say recently."
This revised text should be easier to understand and more persuasive. Good luck with your suggestion!

[3urobeat]

Hey, thanks for the suggestions (very professional tone used indeed haha)

1. I'm honestly not sure if I want to get into this, I don't think it is within the scope of this bot. Report botting is something a bit more "shady" than commenting or voting, and Steam at least in the past tried to work against these kind of bots (see CS:GO related report/ban tools, they worked basically like this or very similar).

2. Yeah, this is honestly a solid idea, I have been asked about this before. Might be something for a plugin though instead of for the core application. I will make a note.

3. An official discord plugin already exists. It however "only" allows you to run commands from Discord and then sends replies from the bot to there as well. It basically implements the Steam Chat for Discord. Anything else is logged to the terminal (and output file). I don't think it would make sense to implement something that sends incoming log messages to Discord as it would spam your channel like crazy. The upcoming web UI makes it easier to view logs anyway.

[3urobeat]

The discord plugin comes pre-installed, here are the instructions to enable it: https://github.com/3urobeat/steam-comment-bot-discord-plugin