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Patience!

honestly, it wasn't impatience but rather shame...
if i'm so stupid that can't even understand a simple instruction that "reply with a move" than this fact should be hidden from the world!
...so delete :'D

You did it exactly right! And how can you learn the correct if you never get feed back for correction?

When the bot is operational, it won't be "as soon as a move is submitted" type bot, but will check at intervals, not sure yet about timing. Not trying to setup a real time system. :-)

why not? what's the reason for the interval approach?

The bot will be set to run periodically, it will not be listening to the blockchain continuously. Will also give a potential window for changing ones mind.

Partly to simplify development. To keep the code simple.

Partly because I don't have big bad servers humming away to continuously process the blockchain.

what language you're coding?

Java, just posted link to repo as a new post.

unfortunately i "don't speak" java but i've heard about steemj which written in java to interact with the blockchain. it's not updated since a while, tho.
receiving blocks and checking for comments should be simple and does not require a huge server.
you might want to join SteemDevs Discord channel where you can find help if you need.

anyway, keep up with the good work :)

Thanks for the support.

I use steemj, with modifications.

https://github.com/muksihs/steem-java-api-wrapper