... or:
# The welcome-bots have taken over (again)
#
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**Did you notice, how every # introduceyourself gets instantly flooded with a bunch of automated comments ?
I'm really fed up with it. I've tried talking to the people running them. I've tried shaming them. I've tried retracting my witness vote.**
#### They won't stop !
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This happened before. @wang was quite successful with it.
Then his comments got downvoted.
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### Since you can't help spamming and wasting precious bandwidth, unnecessarily bloating the blockchain, here are some tips on how to fix your bots:
#
### To make sure you only comment every user _once_:
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    already_commented = []

    if not newbie in already_commented: 

       introduction_post.reply(body=welcome author="yourbot")

       already_commented.append(newbie)
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#### In case the bot crashes, this won't be saved.
#### Better save it:
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    with open('already_commented.csv', 'a') as commented:

        writer = csv.writer(commented)
        writer.writerow(newbie)
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### Or you could use SteemData:
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    from steemdata import SteemData
    s = SteemData()

    q = s.Posts.find({'author':comment_author, 'tags':'introduceyourself'}
                      , projection = {'permlink': 1, '_id': 0})

    tag_used = len(list(q))
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This will return how often an author has used # introduceyourself ( SteemData is not real-time, but takes a snapshot fairly often. )

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#### Beyond that, please consider turning those annoying bots off.
#### Please also reconsider auto-voting for any form of introduction.
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In case you didn't notice: 
# **It's being abused.**
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I would love the steemcleaners to step up to the challenge, but since I run @goodbot, I can see it happened 1162 times in 21 days. And that's only 3rd time users and beyond.
If anybody has Steem Power to share: At this point I'm willing to just auto-flag those repetitive uses of the newbie-tag along with all the automated welcome messages.