The Steemit API was live again and our nonprofit bot shamelessly uses it to run on, so while I was wondering why it hadn't restarted yet and contacted our dev about it, before he did anything I started getting messages that @ocdb was going crazy. Crazy was the right choice as you can see here:
If these were all bids that had not received a vote during the downtime then it would not be a problem that they got refunded, but most Steemians didn't bid during the downtime. After looking through all transactions and refunds, the only thing I can think of is that it is double refunds of previous refunds that were too high or didn't meet the criteria of the ocdb restrictions on max/min bid or post age.
Anyway, in good faith we hope that the community will refund these buggy double refunds back to us, the same way how we have refunded any previous buggy bids in the past when the bot has not cast the vote. Here is a list of the usernames in question:
Sent means the bids they sent, refunded is the amount that got refunded and votes is if they received a vote or not.
The only ones that stood out were cardboard who sent a 1.1 steem bid, we refunded that manually just now, and then verhp11 who sent a 22 steem bid and got 2 refunds and a vote, so verhp11 can feel free to choose which one he refunds as they are kind of similar.
To the ones who sent a bid and received a vote, just deduce the bid from the "refunded" amount to know what to send back to ocdb.
To successfully refund to ocdb, use the memo "transfer" without the quotation marks, example: Send to @ocdb, 10 Steem, Memo: transfer.
Everyone refunding will get a small vote from me as a thank you for your time. Make sure to double check that the calculations in the screenshot above are correct and feel free to ask in the comment section if there is something you are unsure of. Tag spam below for those with Gina notifications, regular readers, close your eyes.
Oh and also, was gonna decline payout on this post but it took some time to check everything manually so I'll take the rewards as compensation, feel free to downvote if you don't agree. :P
@celestal
@futuremind
@markkujantunen
cardboard
@verhp11
@cryptoandcoffee
@macoolette
@felander
@blacklux
@piotrgrafik
@meesterboom
@axeman
@ronaldoavelino
@countrabourdon
@miroslavrc
@for91days
@anomadsoul
@ashikstd
@guchtere
@whack.science
@giantbear
@tobetada
@catwomanteresa
@allover
@rezoanulvibes
@tegoshei
@taliakerch
@por500bolos
@lenasveganliving
@jordangerder
@galenkp
@barge
@madlenfox
@livinguktaiwan
@solominer
@nainaztengra
Thank you! :)
@acidyo okay just sent. Thanks for the great service.
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Thanks, we'll either be voting manually or returning bids for a while until it's working again.
@acidyo:
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The 50 is a rightful refund while 80 is not so that is what I returned. Thanks and I hope the bug went away. 😊
I didn't notice the refund until I saw this message... I transfered 10 steems back... :) Thank you...
Thanks for all you and the team do.
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@acidyo I refunded the 60 steem! I was looking already like 🤨 when I noticed the transfer. Hopefully the bug is solved by now?
Anyhow keep up the good work! 👍 And as my gift for all your time you also got my small upvote 😉
I just sent you 14 SBDs. Sorry for the delay, but I only noticed it now. :=)
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No problem at all, thanks!
Nah, dude, it's all good – as long as I get my 50 STEEM back or a vote :D
That's so unfortunate, maybe next turn off refunds as precaution whenever restarting bot.
@acidyo I have refunded 30 steem.
thank you for the post!
I've gor explanation after reading it, I was puzzled why refund had come to me
Of course, I've made transfer back.
I thought I got curated with a huge upvote 😮 but I think it might have been a bot glitch? Somehow downvote bots and trigger-happy humans (with the new downvotes) have started raining down on my post and downvoting the said post. Let me know next steps.... 🤦♀️
No steps to be taken, just enjoy whatever is left of the free vote we gave with ocdb I guess. Our bad it was too big as we are facing some difficulties lately to fix the bot and don't have much time to manually curate more widespread.
Awwww... You sure? I just upvoted this post with my puny 100% .... 🙈 but I thought I should return it or something... Wasn't sure how to though as it wasn't an extra refund of steem which is more straight forward. Thank you... but do let me know if I can somehow reverse / return / correct it... 😘
Oh no it's fine, we been curating with our extra VP but will try to be more careful with it in the future as to not attract downvotes due to too big votes. :)
Ahaaaa... Yup, first I got a shock when I saw my post upvote (amount) and then when I looked closer, I saw 22 downvotes! 😖 As long as they don't follow me around or mark me... Well, cheers, and hope you manage to sort out the bot (naughty bot!)
Oh shoot! I just remembered I'm in queue for an ocdb vote which I sent 20 steem for, before I got this vote! It says I have 636 mins to the vote - I'm thinking I should cancel that (hmmm, it won't vote a post that's been voted, right?) Or the downvoters are going to have a field day with it... Can I somehow cancel that?
Oh, the queue should not exist anymore haha, it's just a side effect of the bug at the moment. But no it should not revote once it's back and working no worries. :D
Phew! :D Thank youuuu!! :D :D
For profit bot now, is it?😂
That makes no sense, but tbh I'm almost regretting starting this whole thing
Cmon man, you can take a joke.
With all the drama nowadays we gotta keep loose sometimes. ;)
I guess I just didn't get the joke, I have plenty of content I could be posting about if I wanted to :p busy developing OCD but had to spend several hours on this today
Ugh, id just give up on OCDB if i were you. Why deal with so much hassle?
Just rebrand it as "OCD 2" and give curators the posting keys.
Wink wink. 😉
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I bet bid bids would love that
Nope, just me.
The rest of us will deal with the bid bot pricks. ;)
thats alot of work to do sir Tom,no worries everything will be fine.
Who is Tom?
as i remember it is your name boss,or i am wrong. If i am wrong i appologize.
Haha np, you may be thinking of @donkeypong.
oh yeah..you are right! so sorry sir!
Now you have a good suggestion for an 'Alt' account creation... :>) ???????? LOL
I got two transfers from @ocdb that were odd. They were false refunds for bids that had successfully been voted on. The sums were 10 STEEM and 20 STEEM. But @ocdb did not respond in any way to a bid of mine worth 40 STEEM this morning. I made the bid again about 11 minutes ago because I saw @ocdb function normally just moments earlier.
I'll refund the 10 and 20 STEEM false refunds. After that, @ocdb will owe me 2x80 worth of refunds+votes.
I have refunded the false refunds worth 10 and 20 STEEM.
Yeah, weird that it didn't vote you now recently either, will check what's up and refund whatever is missing.
It could be an API acting up and causing errors @ocdb is not prepared to catch.
BTW, it didn't upvote @livinguktaiwan's post, either. In fact, it didn't respond to that bid in any way, either.
Yeah it's not voting at all right now, we'll do it manually rounding up the vote % until we figure out what is the issue. I'll vote on your post soon and refund the 40 Steem that were left.
Ok. Thanks a lot.
Sending a bid for this post just to test.
Can I be whitelisted? Thank you.
@cryptopie I recommend you.. hope you get whitelisted. Great seeing you on MSP in discord and appreicate you giving me that tip for fixing palnet on my keychain.
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Not the right thread nor the right way to apply.
lol I guess they don't call it a 'non-profit' bot for nothing eh?
It's starting to become a very-costly bot on our end instead. :p
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Way to rub it in
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Glad to see in the comments some are voluntarily returning the funds. Hopefully they all will once they realize what happened. Sounds like a lot of headache running your project. Hopefully the bugs are all worked out now and you can get back to normal till the next fork.
Cheers Acid, 35 returned with pleasure!
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