Steemauto Small Feature Request On Curation Trail Settings To Avoid Self-Upvote

Repository

https://github.com/mahdiyari/steemauto

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Components

I would like to suggest a small feature enhancement to existing settings on Curatian Trail service of steemauto.com so that you have the option to not to be self upvoted when a curation trail that you follow upvotes or supports you.

Proposal Description

Curation trail is one of the awesome features added to steem by steemauto and is popularly used. When you make a good post, a curation trail provides you encouragement by automatic support from number of accounts and you push yourself to continue creating valuable content.

Besides, steem has two catagory of people, one who like to self-upvote and the other who don't and I by no means want to take sides and i respect both ideologies.

But when you follow a curation trail and the same curation trail upvotes you for a good content or for your support, the side effect is that you upvote your own post and the second catagory of people i mentioned above don't particularly like that.

So this is a proposal for addition of a small checkbox on the already existing settings of curation trail on steemauto.com

Mockups / Examples

This is the already existing settings on steemauto.com

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The feature request is addition of small checkbox and functionality as shown in highlighted yellow below.

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Default setting can be a checked box which is enabled, as it is how it functions as of now. But after disabling the checkbox you won't get self upvoted as a side effect of following a curation trail.

For Example:
Lets us say @foo follows a curation trail @utopian-io, which consists of 75 followers on trail already. He follows the curation trail as he finds it good for the community(76 followers now).
One day he decides to make contribution to the utopian-io community and gets upvoted by the curation trail(altogether 76 upvotes), and thus he self-upvotes, which he doesn't like. But if he unchecks the proposed settting option, he only gets 75 upvotes from trail(as his upvote is excluded) and thus he is happy as he doesn't self-upvote and is rewarded by the community.

Though the change is minor and example might be self-sufficient, I put forward a small pseudo - code to make it more clear(Assuming the knowledge that a curation trial has voted for a person is gained through subscriber notification system logic or similar):

'''
curation trial: is the upvote trial that user has followed,
my_account: is the user's account name or user object with upvote() method,
upvoted_account: account upvoted by the trial,
get_upvoted_account(): returns the account upvoted through subscriber based system

Let curation_trial = utopian,
my_account = foo
'''

upvoted_account = get_upvoted_account_notification() # user follows utopian curation

if upvoted_account == foo then 
    ignore
else
    my_account.upvote(upvoted_account)

Benefits

This might not seem a major feature request but a great addition for the second group of people(who don't self-upvote and feel upvoting is to be done by people who love other's content) and they can now confidently follow any curation trail they love.

GitHub Account

https://github.com/katastreet