RE: Write a Steemit Web App: Part 9 - Retrieving Content with getDiscussionsBy*()

[neuromancer]

I wish I had the time to experiment in interacting with steemit via API calls and (attempting) scripted routines, I'll happily settle for reading your articles with keen interest.

Some things I'd really like to see would be, for one, a tag explorer that was aware of votes/views for various tags and able to suggest the best tags to apply to an article based on a selection of keywords.

I'm really looking forward to your next post about retrieving and posting comments, it's giving me hope that there will someday be a means of checking comments at submission time to see if it's:

• very short/generic XOR
• clone of another comment AND
• Nth clone of X comment in Y period

Then warning the submitter of potential reputation consequences should they choose to proceed, the second 2 conditions being by far more important. That's the other one I'd really like to see.

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[jfollas]

Not sure that out of the box API would support your type of query. You'd probably have to use one of the database implementations (blockchain/transactions stored in a searchable database) because you're looking to find matches across the comments from a multitude of posts at a time.

[neuromancer]

An API call would go to steemit from an external source, but what I'm describing probably cannot be achieved by anything other than steemit server side, essentially something along these lines (and please excuse the faux verbs/functions):

FOR user submitting a comment, return an array of comments,datetimestamp WHERE datediff(now,12H) AND string(exact(comment)), count all perfect matches of current comment, return count, time, string

user, this is the count time you have posted the exact phrase "string" in time, please consider a less generic response, steemians thrive on original content & meaningful contributions, proceeding with this comment may negatively impact your reputation.
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EG:
copypastamasta, this is the 11th time you have posted the exact phrase "good post, I upvote please upvote me" in 37 minutes, please consider a less generic response, steemians thrive on original content & meaningful contributions, proceeding with this comment may negatively impact your reputation.
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Not something within your purview, I know, more just a hypothetical item for discussion.