TeamNZ Bot Update v1.0.7 - New Members, New Features

In this Update: The Kiwibot gains fresh features as our Kiwi community grows an so does its workload.

<p dir="auto"><center><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXebVjburNeFXb5w2bZ6oa16b8xK5t7ZFYVrb4Er4M7rv/sheep-2292749_640.jpg" alt="sheep-2292749_640.jpg" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXebVjburNeFXb5w2bZ6oa16b8xK5t7ZFYVrb4Er4M7rv/sheep-2292749_640.jpg 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXebVjburNeFXb5w2bZ6oa16b8xK5t7ZFYVrb4Er4M7rv/sheep-2292749_640.jpg 2x" /> <h1>Hello Kiwis, <p dir="auto">I want to give you an update on what I've been doing behind the scenes. In my down time I have been busy crafting a different kind bot that helps facilitate the very awesome <a href="https://steemit.com/contest/@lordnigel/interactive-battle-tournament-4-enrol-for-the-bestest-easy-way-to-win-steem" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Interactive Battle Tournament<span> on STEEM who goes by the name <a href="/@schopenhauer">@schopenhauer. <p dir="auto">If you are interested in earning some STEEM whilst playing a game and having good fun please check out the <a href="https://steemit.com/contest/@lordnigel/interactive-battle-tournament-4-enrol-for-the-bestest-easy-way-to-win-steem" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Interactive Battle Tournament<span>. It is created by our fellow Aussie <a href="/@lordnigel">@lordnigel. <p dir="auto">If you want to learn a little about the mechanics of <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptonik/introducing-schopenhauer-the-interactive-battle-tournament-on-steem-bot-a-user-guide" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Schopenhauer you can read <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptonik/introducing-schopenhauer-the-interactive-battle-tournament-on-steem-bot-a-user-guide" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">here. <p dir="auto">However.... that does not mean I have forgotten our lovely Kiwibot! In fact, just a few hours ago we have moved to a new version update v1.07 <h1>Let's have a look at what has happened since the last update! <h1>Spam Prevention <p dir="auto">If you haven't heard about it: As soon as our Bot got some of that sweet SP (Thank you delegators) it took only a short while for spammers to find it and start abusing it. Sooner than I could have anticipated, I had to fix the issue with a whitelist to prevent the VP draining on....well rubbish. <p dir="auto"><center><span><img src="https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://media.giphy.com/media/QQ5WeXja47qzm/giphy.gif" /><center><em>Source: Giphy <p dir="auto">The good news is that so far the whitelist has worked perfectly and not only that - since the monetary incentive has been removed for spammers, the teamnz tag got cleaned up too. Money works, doesn't it? <h1>New Members <p dir="auto"><span>Since the implementation I have manually added quite a few members to the white list like <a href="/@imjustsaying">@imjustsaying, <a href="/@conradt">@conradt, <a href="/@kiwioz">@kiwioz, <a href="/@melissakellie">@melissakellie (and many more). Yay, we are growing! 💪 Say hello to our fellow Kiwis and go check out what they blog about! <h3><span>If you want to be added to the list please find me on Discord! (cryptonik#4892). Please use <a href="/trending/teamnz"> #teamnz as one of your tags to summon the bot <p dir="auto">It may take me a 1-2 days, but rest assured your username will be added - all Kiwis are welcome here! <h1>Downtime <p dir="auto">I doubt you guys noticed it but 6 days ago we had a downtime window of about 2 hours. I just too the bot offline because I wrote a new patch and was ready to deploy the update - and it failed. <p dir="auto">My CI module told me it was outdated, my code was not builing and the deployment interface froze. Arghh, a developers nightmare unfolded! Everything went nuts at the same time. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ <p dir="auto"><center><span><img src="https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://media.giphy.com/media/LRVnPYqM8DLag/giphy.gif" /><center><em>Source: Giphy <h3>After some nerve-wrenching 1,5 hours I found out that the issue was actually on my server since the company was performing maintenance at the time. <p dir="auto"><center><span><img src="https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://media.giphy.com/media/l0Iy69RBwtdmvwkIo/giphy.gif" /><center><em>Source: Giphy <h2>What are the odds of me updating exactly during their maintenance window? <h1>Statistics <p dir="auto"><center><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmecdvWhGp8W3uTKGFocJi9H1E4cGnQ9EbgpihFMuS8jEX/gui-2311261_640.png" alt="gui-2311261_640.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmecdvWhGp8W3uTKGFocJi9H1E4cGnQ9EbgpihFMuS8jEX/gui-2311261_640.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmecdvWhGp8W3uTKGFocJi9H1E4cGnQ9EbgpihFMuS8jEX/gui-2311261_640.png 2x" /><center><em>Source: Pixabay <p dir="auto">We were able to achieve Max Vote Strength of $0.35 Vote at 100%. Unfortunately, this was short lived and in the slightly bearish phase we are now the Max Vote sits at around $0.21 even though we have more delegated SP than ever before. In the last 3 weeks we went from a 5 calls per day to 9 calls per day on average. <h3>Almost double! How awesome is that? New Kiwis and more active Kiwis! It is a joy to observe! <p dir="auto"><span>And have you seen the <a href="/trending/teamnz"> #teamnz category recently? Safe to say Kiwis are killin it! <h1>New Features <p dir="auto">Since the bot is now being used more I though it was time to make things a bit more fun. So I've built in a random number generator that will now cycle through comments on upvote. You head that right - get ready for 10 different versions of sheep and goats visiting your blog from now on. <p dir="auto"><center><span><img src="https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://media.giphy.com/media/cMso9wDwqSy3e/giphy.gif" /><center><em>Source: Giphy <h2>Hope it puts a smile on your face like it does on mine ;D <h1>Appreciation <p dir="auto"><strong><span>At this point a big thank you to <a href="/@ausbitbank">@ausbitbank, <a href="/@devi1714">@devi1714, <a href="/@jackmiller">@jackmiller and <a href="/@kiwiscanfly">@kiwiscanfly for delegating SP to the bot. Also a big thanks to <a href="/@ravenruis">@ravenruis and <a href="/@devi1714">@devi1714 for following the curation trail. You guys are awesome! <p dir="auto"><strong><span>Additionaly, I would like to thank <a href="/@ravenruis">@ravenruis for putting a lot of work in the weekly curation and member introduction posts. <h1>You can help support TeamNZ! <h2>You can delegate some SP and give the Kiwi community some love ❤️ <p dir="auto">The easiest way to do this is to construct a URL with Steemconnect and then paste it into your browser! This is the correct format: <p dir="auto"><code>https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=YOURUSERNAME&delegatee=BOTUSERNAME&vesting_shares=AMOUNT%20SP <p dir="auto">Change the USENAMES and SP Values! Here is an example of how I would do this: <h3><a href="https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=cryptonik&delegatee=teamnz&vesting_shares=20%20SP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=cryptonik&delegatee=teamnz&vesting_shares=20%20SP <h2>You can also follow the curation trail instead of delegating <p dir="auto">Following a curation trail means that you will follow the bot and copy his votes. Every time he votes, you will vote too. <p dir="auto">We have setup a curation trail on Steemauto. On steemauto you can also set the percentage of your vote weight, and set the limit on how far your voting power can be depleted. <h3>Make an account on <a href="https://steemauto.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">https://steemauto.com and follow <a href="https://steemit.com/@teamnz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">@teamnz! <h3>Here is the direct link: <a href="https://steemauto.com/dash.php?i=1&trail=teamnz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">https://steemauto.com/dash.php?i=1&trail=teamnz <p dir="auto">I hope we can get some more support and spread some love among the Kiwis on Steemit :) <h2>Join Us On Discord <p dir="auto">If you haven't already, please join us on the South Pacific (AUS/NZ) Community server on Discord. <p dir="auto"> <center> <a href="https://[https://discord.gg/GjSqbNx](view-source:https://discord.gg/GjSqbNx)" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link"> <h2>Click Image To Join <br /> <br /> <a href="https://[https://discord.gg/GjSqbNx](view-source:https://discord.gg/GjSqbNx)" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link"> <img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmdzjdp8MoDB5QWu8P2p5sC87vA6AEeTiqVvKzi5WhGXW4/teamnz-cryptonik.jpg" alt="discord link" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmdzjdp8MoDB5QWu8P2p5sC87vA6AEeTiqVvKzi5WhGXW4/teamnz-cryptonik.jpg 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmdzjdp8MoDB5QWu8P2p5sC87vA6AEeTiqVvKzi5WhGXW4/teamnz-cryptonik.jpg 2x" /> <p dir="auto"> <p dir="auto"> <center> <h2>We are excited to meet you and learn more about you! <p dir="auto">