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Do you handle blacklisting manually?
It doesn't seem like it would be hard to automate a blacklist system, for example by PMing the bot with a #blacklistme tag.
If sent from a user, the bot won't reply to that user anymore. If sent from a subreddit via modmail, the bot won't post in that subreddit anymore.
How about a link on each comment to send a PM to the bot to remove a particular comment after it's posted? The bot would only accept this PM from the person who the bot had replied to. I have seen other bots using this system successfully.
Comment by sneakpeekbot at 22/01/2017 at 15:06 UTC
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It's semi-automated. I have to manually run a "check-blacklist-post-for-blacklist-requests" program to add people to the blacklist. I already have this PM me method prepared but I'm not sure what to do about the API calls. Because, for me to check my inbox and act on it at some frequency I'd have to delay (or even skip) my comments scanning for a time - just trying to work that out before I add it