# Anti domination bot
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802 "2018-12-09T01:11:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802/1 "2018-12-09T01:11:46Z")
First experiment with the Discourse API: a bot which discourages users from dominating a category.
This is already proving useful in our [opt-in Politics category](https://se23.life/groups/general_politics) on one of my Discourse forums.
I’m new to Discourse API development, so feedback and PRs appreciated 👍
[https://github.com/chrisbeach/anti-domination-bot](https://github.com/chrisbeach/anti-domination-bot)
[](https://github.com/chrisbeach/anti-domination-bot/blob/master/doc/forum-screenshot.png)
### Configuration
Customise [src/main/resources/application.conf.sample](https://github.com/chrisbeach/anti-domination-bot/blob/master/src/main/resources/application.conf.sample) and save as `src/main/resources/application.conf`
See comments in file for instructions
### Running with Docker
```plaintext
docker run -t \
-v /path/to/your/application.conf:/root/src/main/resources/application.conf \
chrisbeach/anti-domination-bot
```
NOTE: `/path/to/your/application.conf` is the location of your customised application.conf file and must be specified as an absolute path.
### Running (Development)
NOTE: Requires [SBT](https://www.scala-sbt.org/)
```plaintext
sbt run
```
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802/2 "2018-12-09T01:16:44Z")
I think perhaps a better way to do this is automatically limit number of posts per category per day per user. That is, every user gets 3 posts (or whatever number is comfortable) they can make in the Politics category per day.
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### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802/3 "2018-12-09T01:20:04Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> I think perhaps a better way to do this is automatically limit number of posts per category per day per user
Yes, that would be a better way of governing the category (although I do quite like that the bot gives a public shaming 😄).
Is there an setting in core that would allow such a rate limit, or would it need to be a plugin?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802/4 "2018-12-09T01:52:44Z")
Not sure, but the “public shaming” should be a PM anyway, because “public shaming” is rarely a good idea.
Note that our just-in-time education panels only appear in the editor for the user triggering the education panel..
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### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anti-domination-bot/103802/5 "2018-12-09T11:51:43Z")
I’m a big fan of the education panels but a) smartphone users don’t see them and b) some people choose to ignore them.