In #teammalaysia discord server, there is #steemit-post-promo channel, this channel serve the purpose of sharing your post for others to use. To ensure that all posts have equal exposure, there is a rule that one should share their link every 18 hours. However, this rule always got ignore and our admin @littlenewthings need to filter it manually and give those abuser warnings.

So, she suggested building this bot to solve the problem of the abusion.


Today, we implemented Stephard into our discord channel!

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## About the bot

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__Name__: Stephard

__Description__: 
A bot that deletes post-promotion links shared in #teammalaysia discord group when it being abused. Guiding those lost "sheep" back to the sheep fence!

__License__: MIT

__Github Repo__: [superoo7/oo7-discord](https://github.com/superoo7/oo7-discord)
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Few days ago, I manage to build a working prototype. You can read more about it at [oo7 Bot in progress](https://steemit.com/teammalaysia/@superoo7/spam-bot-in-progress).

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__How this bot work?__ 
All message on discord will send through the bot. The bot act as a middleware after a user send a message. This bot will check the author's last message datetime, and then from there, calculate wether the user have posted any link in the past 18 hours.

If you are first time in this channel, the bot will greet you.
![Screen Shot 2018-01-10 at 8.34.30 PM.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1515587685/akvulzrqopj6oueipruo.png)

If  your post is accepted. (After 18 hours rule)
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If you abused. (Share a link within 18 hours rule)
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## Future Plan
This is just a first step of the Discord Bot, in future, we might implement #teammalaysia bot that will upvote our communities post. So, stay tune for more!

## Side Notes
- I also develop a utility bot called [statBot](https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@superoo7/statbot-update-checking-sbd-steem-and-steem-sbd-ratio). Currently, it provides me some utility to check popularity of a certain tag, steem/sbd ratio, sbd and steem price.
- Anyone interested in implementing this bot can ping me [jlwhoo7](https://twitter.com/jlwhoo7) on twitter.



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