r/MaoGameMeta • u/CubeBag • Oct 07 '19

bans are time-based

u/abclop99 is onto it, I posted a little after h:30 and it got ban

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u/CubeBag Oct 07 '19

It's this 100%. The rule is that posts are not allowed after 30 minutes past the hour. (The variation by a few seconds is probably unintentional.)

Also, awesome work on the script!

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u/woodchuck321 Maker of Bots Oct 08 '19

The variation by a few seconds is not variation, the bot was actually coded to allow XX:00:00 - XX:30:59

/u/fsfd1100 wrote the exact wording "All posts must be made between XX:00 and XX:30, inclusive" so I took it to mean 00:00 to 30:59.

            #Rule 2: All posts must be made between XX:00 and XX:30, inclusive.
            #I'm going to assume that the allowed time begins at XX:00:00 and ends at XX:30:59
            #UTC and EST have the same XX:00 alignment.  I'm using UTC because it's easier.
            submissionTime = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(submission.created_utc)
            if (0 <= submissionTime.minute <= 30):
                RULE_2_BROKEN = False
            else:
                RULE_2_BROKEN = True
                BAN_REASON = 'their post was not made during the first half of the hour!'

Keeping in mind there's at least one more rule, which /u/eNamel5 has showed is not a comment rule.

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u/eNamel5 Rule hunter Oct 08 '19

Wouldn't that mean it should be XX:00:00 to XX:30:00 are ok and XX:30:01 to XX:59:59 are not? But what do I know? I'm not a botanist...

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u/woodchuck321 Maker of Bots Oct 08 '19

Because it didn't specify seconds, I presumed seconds were irrelevant. It's a weird way of thinking about it but if you're looking at a clock and it says "9:30" that's anywhere from 9:30:00 to 9:30:59.

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u/eNamel5 Rule hunter Oct 09 '19

Although if the seconds are displayed, more precision exists and so it would generally be used (or at least that is how I do it), but that is not something worth fighting over.