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Points

This is functionality inspired by MEE6 discord bot. For every message, the user gains 15 - 25 points. This functionality has sixty second cooldown, so it is not simple message counter.

User commands

points me

Display your points score.

points stalk (member)

Display points score for other member.

points leaderboard

Display users with highest score.

points loserboard

Display users with lowest score.

Privileged commands

This module has no commands only usable by privileged users.

Decrementing

In order to distinguish this from a simple activity counter, you can set up a cron script that will decrease the points in the given interval.

Because the database is password protected, you have to set the password elsewhere. We’re gonna recommend the .pgpass file.

echo "<hostname>:<port>:<database>:<username>:<password>" > ~/.pgpass
chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass

In our production case, the string is localhost:*:rubbergoddess:<username>:<password>.

Then open the cron with crontab -e and add the entry:

0 0 * * * psql -U <username> -c "UPDATE points SET points=points*0.99;"

This will run the command every midnight and it will decrease all the points by 1%. This will lower the values by 7% in a week, 26% in a month or 60% in three months. It will prevent the most active users from keeping their points forever, they’ll have to keep being active in order to stay on the top.

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