!!/report messages should be added as a comment on MS

[angussidney]

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The !!/report command can take an optional 'custom reason' argument. The current implementation simply adds some extra text to the 'why' info for the report.

It would be ideal if this also added a comment to the MS post on behalf of the command user, so that the message is prominently shown on the MS post itself, along with the other comments.

Note: when Smokey reports a post, it doesn't know the the MS ID and thus can't send a request to /comments/post to add a comment. There are two potential workarounds for this:

• Wait for a few seconds before sending the posts-by-url followed by add comment request (could we use the tasks system for this?)
• Add a new optional field to the MS post creation process, which will post the comment once the post is created. (note that this will require some MS dev work).

[angussidney]

If we can make a decision on which approach we wish to take, and do any MS dev if necessary, this should be a good [hacktoberfest] issue.

[iBug]

Summary

Difficulty:

SmokeDetector has a chat-based command interface which allows you to report a post on Stack Overflow or one of the other sites we monitor as possible spam. The chat bot then basically relays the report to the back-end server using its API.

This issue involves sending data to metasmoke with delaying and retrying. It's relatively easy given that there is working code around that you can adopt from.

Guidance

You'll need to modify the report_posts function in chatcommands.py. Once the report is posted (after the handle_spam call), you'll need to kick off an async task (using Tasks.later()) to send the report reason (if there was one) to metasmoke as a comment. You can create a new function that tries to post a comment to metasmoke, by calling Metasmoke.post_auto_comment() with proper arguments. Then you can use Tasks.later() to start this function from report(), with an appropriate delay.

There is already another example of posting comments to metasmoke, and it's easy to adopt once you figure out how each function works.

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[gparyani]

@angussidney You sure that that's the right line?

[ArtOfCode-]

@gparyani the code has changed since. I've fixed it.

[dineshkrishnareddy]

hi @angussidney is this issue still open? Can i work on this

[angussidney]

Of course @dineshkrishnareddy! Feel free to go right ahead, we'd love to have your help!

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