Hello all,

I was pushed to write about this by the wonderful @mermaidvampire, as it could be useful to SCOT instances to help in abuse prevention.

### Why?

As you may or may not know, mutes are used by SCOT instances to decide who is ineligible for rewards. Muting people manually can be very time consuming (I didn't even bother with a 27 long list of people to mute - why this exists), so I decided to write this simple script utilising the BEEMPY library.

### Get Script Here:
Repo URL: https://github.com/Snaddyvitch-Dispenser/Blacklist-To-Mutes

### How to use?
To use this python script, simply specify the bot account name, beem wallet unlock password and the blacklist you'd like to use, near the top of the file: 
![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/cadawg/huzXH4Jb-image.png)

Then run the script, you'll see it mute everyone one by one (it takes 3 seconds for each due to it being a custom_json operation). One special thing with this script is it won't mute anyone you've already muted, so as not to waste bandwidth/time.

### Why LEO (I've done some investing!)
But CADawg, why the fricc is this tagged LEO? Because I want to get this far and wide. Also, for the pedantic amongst you:

Investment wise, to make my investment in all these SCOT instances more worthwhile, I'm currently working on splitting my tokens into separate accounts for efficiency. Obviously it's going to take some time to do all that curation, so I may turn to my good friend, **THE CODE** for some assistance in this manner.

My investments are now in the accounts (more coming soon):
@roar2vote - LEO
@splintersoup - SPT
@idosports - SPORTS

Have a lovely day,
*Your local tag-cramming @cadawg*

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