RE: @Checky 0.2.1 - Highlighted Differences, Better Mention Detection and More !
Thanks for your feedback !
@checky doesn't care if a steemian actually is active or not, it only wants to know if an account that has that username exists. So in the case of mentioning @cheeky, it wouldn't consider it an unexisting username, same for @cheky. But if you write @chekky (which doesn't exist), it would suggest you to write @checky (one edit away: replacing 'k' by 'c') instead of @cheeky (one edit away: replacing 'k' by 'e') or @cheky (one edit away: removing 'k') because it is the most mentioned out of the three usernames. @checky also remembers all the usernames you mentioned since its first active day so that it can refine its suggestions. If you mentioned @cheeky in the past but never @checky, then it would have actually suggested to write @cheeky.
I like the idea of rewarding people for editing their posts but I fear that it may get pretty quickly abused. I guess that @checky could upvote 9 random posts a day (one of them is already used on @fullnodeupdate's posts as a way of thanking the service) out of all the posts commented on that day, the randomness of those votes would hopefully avoid as much as possible abuse of the system. That would mean that, looking at @checky's current stats, if all the posts commented get edited, about 10% of them would get an upvote from @checky. I could also increase the chances of getting an upvote for people that upvoted @checky's comment, may help with covering the costs in the future (even though they currently are ridiculously low).
As for replacing the comments, I'm not so sure I like that idea. I feel like if a user doesn't interact with @checky, it's that it doesn't want to see its comment under his post. I don't want @checky's comments to be treated as "one more bot commenting on my post" by steemians. However, now that I think about it, changing the comment to something like you said (minus the upvote part) would be a good idea if it can't be deleted anyway (upvoted/replied to).
Well, thanks for this comment, it's been a really productive one !
the problem with the most mentioned is that its usually not the one username people are looking for.
May I Suggest 2 options to add....
when retrieving the suggested replacment include the start date of the account you are suggesting that way whether a user is mentioning a whale whos been on the Platform for a couple years or a newbie, that way they implicitly know if it could be the wrong username.
And how about a command to add to return the list of User Names with 1 degree of freedom difference being allowed.
On another note:
I would like to point out is that a majority of people are on Microsoft windows were case is ignored and I always type @RichAtVNS because you can read it just as RJSilver, and PayoutBot.
But all are seen on steem as lowercase versions, so you need to be case insensitive.
Thank you for your feedback and ideas !
About the most mentioned user not being the user people are looking for, that's why @checky first checks its suggestions against steemians previously mentioned by the author and then, if it doesn't find any match, it defaults to suggesting the most mentioned on the blockchain. It will also soon check against the followers/following of the author before the most mentioned to refine even more its suggestions.
I don't really understand your first suggestion so I won't comment on it yet. Your second suggestion though is a really good idea ! I will start working on a
!moreor!suggestionscommand to see all of @checky's suggestions for a supposedly wrong mention.While I see where you are coming from with the bot needing to be case insensitive, it just wasn't worth it, especially with HF20 and the RC cost of comments being pretty high. Most of the mentions (about 80%) it gave suggestions for were not Steem usernames even though there are lots of checks in the code to avoid usernames from other platforms as much as possible. I will however soon add a command to the bot to let users decide whether or not they want @checky to be case insensitive when checking their posts, this should help steemians that like to capitalize Steem usernames.