Apologies but this will be too heavy for most readers. For Python coders, it may be semi-legible.

I recently wrote a couple of functions to further support the [RandomVoter]( https://peakd.com/hive-163521/@slobberchops/python-libraries-the-random-splash-voter) script. One reason is to stop my head from falling into decay as I now haven't worked for around 9 months.

![PythonLibs - Splash.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23tHbkj8AudnJmGf78JtTHsLDCVAFBG1wvxqF5g9i7yN3Te3zuvarrWTNzs9ZHF8jiT8G.jpg)

They say IT still has great demand, but not for my niche. At my age I don’t know whether I can be arsed to re-skill and if Splinterlands Land takes off next year, then maybe I will never need to.

Learning Python has been quite fun, and it’s an easy language once you get your head around it. I struggle more with the BEEM library due to inadequate documentation.

Technical people are not re-known for making great docs, and I am a testament to that.

I am unsure whether to make a GitHub repository for all these bits of code. I don’t mind sharing but my confidence as a programmer has never been great.

In the commercial world, I have written many scripts that have been used but have always seen myself as a hack n' slash coder, and that more orthodox coders would sneer at my badly written efforts.

The main thing is that I can get things to work, and that is more important to me than structure and order.

![RedLine.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/246bHiHbRfQjcEkvuD5ZVRvw29C4Aas1iYDEwtReeDiSQvkVR31FKYpYdHUK9egHprYqW.png)

<H4>Function detecttag</H4>

I have never been a great fan of Actifit posts. I see some that a quite meaty in content and I do upvote these posts if I follow the authors and they are to a good standard.

What I don't want happening is for the RandomVoter script to upvote them as quite often I won't look or inspect their innards.

I needed a way to detect the tags used from the post object and then skip the vote if #actifit was present.

There used to be a method ‘get_tags_used_by_author’ which no longer works. @foxon mentioned in a discord session this had been discounted in HF24.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23t8CSPFBxuKHv7HKi8NLChvGoCqqNzrvPciVLYrx8kHsvmG12r8qC93jrqZcU4wBoEeo.png)

Thanks to @steevc who has used an alternative method I dissected his GitHub code and figured out an easier way.

“tags” is an attribute of the comment property but tough to find in Holger's documentation, or at least with examples.

*strnovotetag* holds the tag for pending posts that I don't want to curate.

Like many of my functions, it returns a Boolean value for the result code.

Next, I needed to add the Def into my main script with some If commands to skip voting depending on the results.

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<H4>Function isfollowed</H4>

My list of votees does contain some accounts that I follow. While I am happy that the four smaller accounts curate these authors, I did not want my large @slobberchops one included.

I generally curate my followers manually and wield larger votes than the default weight of 5% used with RandomVoter.

It would be great if I could detect the accounts on the list, check if @slobberchops is following them, and skip that vote.

This way all accounts benefit from the smaller votes and I can manually hand out bigger ones to accounts I follow.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/Eo8ZdCDZ5SFMBMANSca65RXAwRJHvWHeD3HwuKcPh6gTbZ4JuwtPQpnD8mmyhCeku5L.png)

This one was quite easy to lift from Holger's documentation and took less than 30 minutes to craft in my usual style.

I used @meesterboom as the followed account is the string *strvotee* and my account in *strmainvotingaccount*.

Like *detecttag* this function returns a Boolean value and can easily be adapted into the main script, or so I thought!

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After some tinkering to the main script, the release notes added and an updated version (2.0) yielded the result I was looking for worked.

Incorporating the functions into the main script took longer than writing both routines. Perhaps it is my bad structure, which I am fully aware of.

![Vote.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23tmmf7kimEjrsjabrki1CpUp1bYeWPyBgm8ahh7vc4vUX5aihHspmWLDnrKDsaXB6t3p.JPG)

The voting code needed to be relocated into a separate function as I am not a fan of duplicating code. It looks a little more structured now and contains the call to the check posts that have already been voted.

The issue I had was to ensure both functions would be enumerated correctly and I needed to resort to using a Boolean variable named *slobbervote* which would be set to False if the *isfollowed* function returned False.

![IncorporatedIntoMain.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23tSzR72rs5o9seGbxGs1y6mX6L7esCREEFN9H1hCFKsbGZCzCEynrnDuXmeAYcXDcgxF.JPG)

Maybe there is a more elegant solution to my solution but as I have said before, I am still learning and am no coding genius.

To test I needed accounts that have posted in the last 24 hours, one that I follow and one that is an Actifit post.

![GetRandAccount.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23tSzR6hgfq4SZMnGcBrJvK6khbtZnuQyEhE7K7zmnz2kJhvoEShzKeBtCVmJaCBzFm9c.JPG)

For this I can comment out the *getrandaccount* function that returns.., what do you know!.. a random account to vote on, and hard code in other accounts.

![NoVoteAsI Follow.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23t72jnQXZExBZqGc3orFVjaeZrWpQ1gZdgzBEaGxS4JMRm7uX9Zm62N6ZEE8cv8W3HSy.JPG)

Thanks, @chekohler for being my guinea pig on this one. I can see it works and @chekohler will now get random votes from my smaller accounts but not the @slobberchops account as I tend to manually curate his work.

![NoVoteAndIgnoresActifit.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23t72xBf8cigPwm2SpPYQ1uspi5ni9jrzXXhBeAgps2NdT6N3SJz8u2YKnPxubypCg1EQ.JPG)

@trezzahn is another author who I follow and exclusively uses the Actifit tag. This account was perfect for testing my other function, or was it?

Like the previous example, the code exited when it discovered I follow @trezzahn. There is no requirement to check for the Actifit tag as I follow this author.



For the final test, I needed an author who was on my vote list, who I didn't follow, and who used ActiFit tags in their post.

![ActiFit posts.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23tSspxYHVcjbVx5o1WrgpDcCnteA69fHZ278jWmZFxk1XxigSySkLGAmpgEmxr8cYLnt.JPG)

I couldn't find one immediately so scanned ALL ActiFit posts. This is why I don't want to auto-curate these posts. Most of them are [sparse.](https://peakd.com/hive-193552/@likeablespoon321/actifit-likeablespoon321-20220429t092954245z).

I could say shit, but each to their own!

![ActifitNOVOTE.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/slobberchops/23t72xBKxRTvBa4KUwJFBeCY8aYKqsZzFkdzfwf5agnbqpWHrbK2QQdGbyMGHJTWvysTN.JPG)

Sorry @likeablespoon321 but I can't vote for your one line of text, but if you see this, respond, and don't give me any shit I may give you a comment vote. Love the name, but 321?

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