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SLVE - Steem Late Vote Explorer

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Description

Steem Late Vote Explorer (SLVE) is a tool I designed to visually represent and track last-minute votes in the interests of education and abuse detection. It is built with customizability in mind and can currently stream the blockchain to show a live feed of last-minute votes, it also has a resident GUI which is currently incomplete.

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Repository

https://github.com/sisygoboom/abuse_detection_steemit

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Bug Fixes

Initialisation directory was being overwritten by working directory

When creating a new AbuseDetection instance, if a user had passed a directory param to look for the data in, the directory would get instantly overwritten by the working directory (os.getcwd()).

To fix this, os.getcwd() is now only used if None is passed as the directory parameter.

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New Features

Data can now be passed as a parameter to AbuseDetection

To save time and resources, if another program or instance has already loaded the data, it makes no sense for a new instance to reload a second copy. That's why I made data a parameter when creating a new AbuseDetection instance.

I did this by creating a new if/else tree. If the data was passed as a parameter, then no further work is needed bar making it an instance variable. If no data is passed, we revert to the code we had previously, where it attempts to load a database.

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Stream blockchain in background

Now, when the GUI starts, so does the blockchain streamer. This allows the user to have an up to date database without having to manually start the streamer via command line every time. This makes the program a lot more accessible for non-technical users.

I did this firstly by importing the AbuseDetection class.

And then by creating a new instance. Data can be passed as a parameter, thanks to the development made above. After the instance has been created, we start the stream which has already got multithreading built in, allowing us to continue the rest of the program.

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Synchronise keynames

Until this point, voters and receivers had different key names for essentially the same data. Voters had quantity and value whereas recievers had total_votes and total_lme respectively. The benefits of making both sets of keys the same are preventing repeated code, increasing efficiency and making the code easier to understand.

I did this by using the find + replace all feature in my IDE. I then deleted abuse_log.json because it still used the old keys. The easiest way to avoid confusion is to hit the reset button in this case.

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Account lookup button

In the GUI, when a user selects an account name, they now have the option to click on the account lookup button which takes them directly to that users steemit homepage.

I achieved this by creating a new button, which I then linked to a command called self.lookup() which plugs the selected username into a steemit.com URL; I made use of the webbrowser module that comes built into vanilla python to open the page.

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GitHub Account

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Roadmap

• GUI
  • Integrate with make_pie.py so pie charts can be used within the GUI
  • Right-click menu
  • Make reputation/steem UA score visible upon user selection
  • Order listbox by reputation
  • Listbox showing individual post statistics for selected user
  • Top mounted menubar
• Allow user to select what frontend the account lookup uses.