As you may know, the bot has recently recovered from a 7-day suspension, but that was only the most recent in a line of shorter bans that are the result of mass reporting of the bot's comments. The bot has won the appeal and managed to get the suspensions overturned, so it's likely just Reddit's automatic system. This is not due to the mods of PCM, but likely the hard work of some losers exploiting a quirk of Reddit. In particular, the pills lists have been a point of contention as well as a security concern that has been difficult to moderate.

Despite the bot being flaired as authcenter, I am libleft/left and believe in freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and I only moderate to pr

The bot will now track which specific pills your account has been described as taking (redpilled, lib-pilled, cat-pilled, etc.)

This feature is in beta and likely to break or cause some other problems. Please feel free to message me if it's doing something bad or if it sucks. Remember to include 'Suggestion' in the message title.

If you wish to remove a pill from your list, you may comment in r/PCM or message the bot directly with '/removepill' followed by the name of the pill.

Example:

/removepill destroy-all-humans

Pills will only be counted if they are part of a 'based' comment (either "based and " or "baste and ", non-case-sensitive) and are fairly short, hopefully to prevent

Based Department, please hold...

basedcount_bot is a bot created to keep track of how based users are. If you have any suggestions or questions, please message them to me with the subject of "Suggestion" or "Question" to automatically forward them to a human operator.

based - adj. - to be in possession of viewpoints acquired through logic or observation rather than simply following what your political alignment dictates, often used as a sign of respect but not necessarily agreement

Commands: /info | /mybasedcount | /basedcount username | /mostbased | /removepill

#FAQ
Q: Why are you doing this?

A: *I like data and I like r/politi

EDIT: Due to the poll results, I have stopped counting unflaired accounts. However, I will allow those who have already been based to remain in the databased.

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EDIT: I've gotten a lot of great answers and a lot of help. Currently the main discussion is happening over on the discord channel, so feel free to stop over and join the push to getting this bot back on track! Thanks again to all the help!

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As you probably are aware, the bot has been broken for the last several days. This is due to my yet-unsuccessful attempt at migrating the bot to a cloud server (Heroku) from my home server.

The issue specifically has to do with the fact that Heroku servers reset every day, randomly between every 21 and 27 hours. The bot saves the dataBased locally in a json file, which is lost in each shutdown as Heroku doesn't allow for long term local stor

basedcount_bot now has a Discord channel. Feel free to stop by and discuss the bot, report bugs, or even help with the code! Invite link: https://discord.gg/TuXBfRVn

Unflaired accounts still cannot be counted by the bot. I may reinstate the reply feature with a different reply message in the future.

Pills can no longer contain links. This was a very clever exploit that I got a pretty good kick out of, but it is also a security risk as people could compel the bot to post illegal links. I may add exceptions for popular websites in the future, such as Reddit or Wikipedia.

Thank you to everyone who has sent bug reports. Without your feedback I am unable to discover problems. The pill system is still a bit janky but it's on my to-do list.

As I'm sure you know, PCM has gone down in protest of the UKpolitics/Reddit scandal, and full support to their cause. Unfortunately this means the bot will likely not start up for a while when the sub opens back up again, as I would probably have to manually restart it. I'll do my best to monitor the situation.

Originally I thought the sub had gotten banned. This makes a good case for setting up a contingency plan in the event of a future ban. I'm not sure if I'd shut the bot down for good or move it to the "next best" sub. Perhaps some other members of the community could help direct me if I choose to move the bot, as I am not really active in PCM on my human account and generally just lur

The bot already has several "anti-cheat" measures in the code that automatically prevent shenanigans (such as basing yourself), however some users have found and taken advantage of exploits. I haven't patched many of them simply because I want to keep things a bit more open and I'd rather allow a few to slip through rather than miss genuine based comments.

In general, I don't really care, as it's a bot meant for fun rather than being a totally serious endeavor, but I'd like to prevent people from spamming PCM with endless comments that say nothing but "based" and bottlenecking the bot even further.

A few weeks ago I implemented a system where the bot sends a cheat report to the admin accou

It's been fun, but the comment section is starting to get bogged down with the ridiculous pills containing braille artwork. The bot will be shut off for a bit in order to allow for the cleaning of the databased. In the meantime, I will likely ban unicode characters from pills if it continues to be a problem, but I prefer to leave them if I can.

The cleaning of the databased won't actually remove any pills, so the remaining pills might be quite messed up if they contained any unicode characters. You may remove them yourself using /removepill. Feel free to let me know if there are any problems with the cleaning.

basedcount.com is a new website with the goal of hosting basedcount info in a location that can't as easily leave the bot open to report spam. The formatting of replies will need to be worked on, and currently mobile users will have a hard time accessing the site from the bot's comments, but the near future will bring many QoL improvements.

If you wish to see your based count or the count of any user, you may go to basedcount.com/u/[username] or use the website itself to search.

Currently the bot only accepts 'based' in English (based), Spanish (basado), and Grillish (baste). If you speak another language or want to add support for another language, please comment the language and word for 'based' below.

Bot just spent ~14 hours down due to Windows Update. Apologies once again.

Pills should be a lot less buggy now. Issues where the bot was removing spaces or 'and/but/based' from pill names should now be fixed. 'Basado' is now an accepted form of 'based' in solidarity with our Spanish speaking users.

As always, please let me know if you're having issues with the bot, particularly with pills getting messed up.

Sorry for the terrible rollbacks these last few days, everyone. This bot is really the only public code that I maintain, so every issue/error requires me to tackle a steep learning curve of unknown unknowns.

The bot has rolled back daily to October 20th due to errors migrating to the new server, so no based counts or pills have been counted since then. The good news is that it might be fixed! The bad news is I won't truly know until it makes it through the next day. Please let me know if you experience any new rollbacks after the time of this post.

And as always, if you have skills coding and would like to help maintain the bot or improve it somehow, feel free to hop on over to my discord