Merge branch 'edge'

* Only return logs for "default viewed" subreddit/bot when fetching instance status, when specified from QS
  * Greatly reduces amount of data fetched and response time
* Return logs with formatted property for non-streaming response
* Implement server live stats endpoint to return subreddit/all stats based on QS
* Use client websocket connection to return stats for currently viewed subreddit

.dockerignore

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-node_modules
 Dockerfile
 .dockerignore
 .gitignore
 .git
 src/logs
-/docs
 .github
+/docs/
+/node_modules/

.github/FUNDING.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+github: [FoxxMD]
+custom: ["bitcoincash:qqmpsh365r8n9jhp4p8ks7f7qdr7203cws4kmkmr8q"]

.gitignore

@@ -381,4 +381,14 @@ dist
 .pnp.*
 
 **/src/**/*.js
+!src/Web/assets/public/yaml/*
 **/src/**/*.map
+/**/*.sqlite
+/**/*.bak
+*.yaml
+*.json5
+
+!src/Schema/*.json
+!docs/**/*.json5
+!docs/**/*.yaml
+!docs/**/*.json

Dockerfile

@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
-FROM node:16-alpine3.12
+FROM node:16-alpine3.14 as base
 
 ENV TZ=Etc/GMT
 
-RUN apk update
+# vips required to run sharp library for image comparison
+RUN echo "http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.14/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories \
+    && apk --no-cache add vips
 
 RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone
 
 WORKDIR /usr/app
 
+FROM base as build
+
 COPY package*.json ./
 COPY tsconfig.json .
 
@@ -15,7 +19,13 @@ RUN npm install
 
 ADD . /usr/app
 
-RUN npm run build
+RUN npm run build && rm -rf node_modules
+
+FROM base as app
+
+COPY --from=build /usr/app /usr/app
+
+RUN npm install --production
 
 ENV NPM_CONFIG_LOGLEVEL debug
 

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-[![Latest Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/foxxmd/context-mod)](https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/releases)
-[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
-[![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/foxxmd/context-mod)](https://hub.docker.com/r/foxxmd/context-mod)
+# ContextMod [![Latest Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/foxxmd/context-mod)](https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/releases) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/foxxmd/context-mod)](https://hub.docker.com/r/foxxmd/context-mod)
+
+<img src="/docs/logo.png" align="right"
+alt="ContextMod logo" width="180" height="176">
 
 **Context Mod** (CM) is an event-based, [reddit](https://reddit.com) moderation bot built on top of [snoowrap](https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/snoowrap) and written in [typescript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/).
 
@@ -19,13 +20,15 @@ Some feature highlights:
   * Default/no configuration runs "All In One" behavior
   * Additional configuration allows web interface to connect to multiple servers
   * Each server instance can run multiple reddit accounts as bots
-* **Per-subreddit configuration** is handled by JSON stored in the subreddit wiki
-* Any text-based actions (comment, submission, message, usernotes, ban, etc...) can be configured via a wiki page or raw text in JSON and support [mustache](https://mustache.github.io) [templating](/docs/actionTemplating.md)
+* **Per-subreddit configuration** is handled by YAML (**like automoderator!**) or JSON stored in the subreddit wiki
+* Any text-based actions (comment, submission, message, usernotes, ban, etc...) can be configured via a wiki page or raw text and supports [mustache](https://mustache.github.io) [templating](/docs/actionTemplating.md)
 * History-based rules support multiple "valid window" types -- [ISO 8601 Durations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations), [Day.js Durations](https://day.js.org/docs/en/durations/creating), and submission/comment count limits.
 * Support Activity skipping based on:
   * Author criteria (name, css flair/text, age, karma, moderator status, and [Toolbox User Notes](https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/wiki/docs/usernotes))
   * Activity state (removed, locked, distinguished, etc.)
 * Rules and Actions support named references (write once, reference anywhere)
+* [**Image Comparisons**](/docs/imageComparison.md) via fingerprinting and/or pixel differences
+* [**Repost detection**](/docs/examples/repost) with support for external services (youtube, etc...)
 * Global/subreddit-level **API caching**
 * Support for [Toolbox User Notes](https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/wiki/docs/usernotes) as criteria or Actions (writing notes)
 * Docker container support
@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@ See the [Moderator's Getting Started Guide](/docs/gettingStartedMod.md)
 
 ## Configuration and Documentation
 
-Context Bot's configuration can be written in JSON, [JSON5](https://json5.org/) or YAML. Its schema conforms to [JSON Schema Draft 7](https://json-schema.org/). Additionally, many **operator** settings can be passed via command line or environmental variables.
+Context Bot's configuration can be written in YAML (like automoderator) or [JSON5](https://json5.org/). Its schema conforms to [JSON Schema Draft 7](https://json-schema.org/). Additionally, many **operator** settings can be passed via command line or environmental variables.
 
 * For **operators** (running the bot instance) see the [Operator Configuration](/docs/operatorConfiguration.md) guide
 * For **moderators** consult the [app schema and examples folder](/docs/#configuration-and-usage)
@@ -124,7 +127,7 @@ Moderator view/invite and authorization:
 
 A built-in editor using [monaco-editor](https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/) makes editing configurations easy:
 
-* Automatic JSON syntax validation and formatting
+* Automatic JSON or YAML syntax validation and formatting
 * Automatic Schema (subreddit or operator) validation
 * All properties are annotated via hover popups
 * Unauthenticated view via `yourdomain.com/config`

app.json

@@ -17,12 +17,22 @@
     "REFRESH_TOKEN": {
       "description": "Refresh token retrieved from authenticating an account with your Reddit Application",
       "value": "",
-      "required": true
+      "required": false
     },
     "ACCESS_TOKEN": {
       "description": "Access token retrieved from authenticating an account with your Reddit Application",
       "value": "",
-      "required": true
+      "required": false
+    },
+    "REDIRECT_URI": {
+      "description": "Redirect URI you specified when creating your Reddit Application. Required if you want to use the web interface. In the provided example replace 'your-heroku-app-name' with the name of your HEROKU app.",
+      "value": "https://your-heroku-6app-name.herokuapp.com/callback",
+      "required": false
+    },
+    "OPERATOR": {
+      "description": "Your reddit username WITHOUT any prefixes EXAMPLE /u/FoxxMD => FoxxMD. Specified user will be recognized as an admin.",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": false
     },
     "WIKI_CONFIG": {
       "description": "Relative url to contextbot wiki page EX https://reddit.com/r/subreddit/wiki/<path>",

cliff.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# configuration file for git-cliff (0.1.0)
+
+[changelog]
+# changelog header
+header = """
+# Changelog
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.\n
+"""
+# template for the changelog body
+# https://tera.netlify.app/docs/#introduction
+body = """
+{% if version %}\
+    ## [{{ version | replace(from="v", to="") }}] - {{ timestamp | date(format="%Y-%m-%d") }}
+{% else %}\
+    ## [unreleased]
+{% endif %}\
+{% for group, commits in commits | group_by(attribute="group") %}
+    ### {{ group | upper_first }}
+    {% for commit in commits
+    | filter(attribute="scope")
+    | sort(attribute="scope") %}
+        - *({{commit.scope}})* {{ commit.message | upper_first }}
+        {%- if commit.breaking %}
+        {% raw %}  {% endraw %}- **BREAKING**: {{commit.breaking_description}}
+        {%- endif -%}
+    {%- endfor -%}
+    {%- for commit in commits %}
+        {%- if commit.scope -%}
+        {% else -%}
+            - *(No Category)* {{ commit.message | upper_first }}
+            {% if commit.breaking -%}
+            {% raw %}  {% endraw %}- **BREAKING**: {{commit.breaking_description}}
+            {% endif -%}
+        {% endif -%}
+    {% endfor -%}
+{% endfor %}
+"""
+# remove the leading and trailing whitespaces from the template
+trim = true
+# changelog footer
+footer = """
+<!-- generated by git-cliff -->
+"""
+
+[git]
+# allow only conventional commits
+# https://www.conventionalcommits.org
+conventional_commits = true
+# regex for parsing and grouping commits
+commit_parsers = [
+    { message = "^feat", group = "Features"},
+    { message = "^fix", group = "Bug Fixes"},
+    { message = "^doc", group = "Documentation"},
+    { message = "^perf", group = "Performance"},
+    { message = "^refactor", group = "Refactor"},
+    { message = "^style", group = "Styling"},
+    { message = "^test", group = "Testing"},
+    { message = "^chore\\(release\\): prepare for", skip = true},
+    { message = "^chore", group = "Miscellaneous Tasks"},
+    { body = ".*security", group = "Security"},
+]
+# filter out the commits that are not matched by commit parsers
+filter_commits = false
+# glob pattern for matching git tags
+tag_pattern = "[0-9]*"
+# regex for skipping tags
+skip_tags = "v0.1.0-beta.1"

docs/README.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
   * [Activities `window`](#activities-window)
   * [Comparisons](#thresholds-and-comparisons)
   * [Activity Templating](/docs/actionTemplating.md)
+  * [Image Comparisons](#image-comparisons)
 * [Best Practices](#best-practices)
   * [Named Rules](#named-rules)
   * [Rule Order](#rule-order)
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ Find detailed descriptions of all the Rules, with examples, below:
 * [History](/docs/examples/history)
 * [Author](/docs/examples/author)
 * [Regex](/docs/examples/regex)
+* [Repost](/docs/examples/repost)
 
 ### Rule Set
 
@@ -118,6 +120,15 @@ It consists of:
 * **rules** -- The **Rules** for the Rule Set.
 
 Example
+
+YAML
+```yaml
+condition: AND
+# rules are an array
+rules:
+ - aRule
+```
+JSON
 ```json5
 {
   "condition": "AND",
@@ -268,6 +279,12 @@ The duration value compares a time range from **now** to `duration value` time i
 
 Refer to [duration values in activity window documentation](/docs/activitiesWindow.md#duration-values) as well as the individual rule/criteria schema to see what this duration is comparing against.
 
+### Image Comparisons
+
+ContextMod implements two methods for comparing **image content**, perceptual hashing and pixel-to-pixel comparisons. Comparisons can be used to filter activities in some activities.
+
+See [image comparison documentation](/docs/imageComparison.md) for a full reference. 
+
 ## Best Practices
 
 ### Named Rules

docs/activitiesWindow.md

@@ -17,7 +17,28 @@ Examples of all of the above
 
 <details>
 
+```yaml
+# count, last 100 activities
+window: 100
+
+# duration, last 10 days
+window: 10 days
+
+# duration object, last 2 months and 5 days
+window:
+  months: 2
+  days: 5
+
+# iso 8601 string, last 15 minutes
+window: PT15M
+
+# ActivityWindowCriteria, last 100 activities or 6 weeks of activities (whichever is found first)
+window:
+  count: 100
+  duration: 6 weeks
 ```
+
+```json5
 // count, last 100 activities
 {
   "window": 100
@@ -49,6 +70,7 @@ Examples of all of the above
   }
 }
 ```
+
 </details>
 
 ## Types of Ranges
@@ -95,6 +117,7 @@ If you need to specify multiple units of time for your duration you can instead
 
 Example
 
+JSON
 ```json
 {
   "days": 4,
@@ -102,6 +125,13 @@ Example
   "minutes": 20
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+window:
+  days: 4
+  hours: 6
+  minutes: 20
+```
 
 ##### An ISO 8601 duration string
 
@@ -119,6 +149,7 @@ This is an object that lets you specify more granular conditions for your range.
 
 The full object looks like this:
 
+JSON
 ```json
 {
   "count": 100,
@@ -130,6 +161,19 @@ The full object looks like this:
   }
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+window:
+  count: 100
+  duration: 10 days
+  satisfyOn: any
+  subreddits:
+    include:
+      - mealtimevideos
+      - pooptimevideos
+    exclude:
+      - videos
+```
 
 ### Specifying Range
 
@@ -142,7 +186,9 @@ If both range properties are specified then the value `satisfyOn` determines how
 
 If **any** then Activities will be retrieved until one of the range properties is met, **whichever occurs first.**
 
-Example 
+Example
+
+JSON
 ```json
 {
   "count": 80,
@@ -150,6 +196,13 @@ Example
   "satisfyOn": "any"
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+window:
+  count: 80
+  duration: 90 days
+  satisfyOn: any
+```
 Activities are retrieved in chunks of 100 (or `count`, whichever is smaller)
 
 * If 90 days of activities returns only 40 activities => returns 40 activities
@@ -160,6 +213,8 @@ Activities are retrieved in chunks of 100 (or `count`, whichever is smaller)
 If **all** then both ranges must be satisfied. Effectively, whichever range produces the most Activities will be the one that is used.
 
 Example
+
+JSON
 ```json
 {
   "count": 100,
@@ -167,6 +222,13 @@ Example
   "satisfyOn": "all"
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+window:
+  count: 100
+  duration: 90 days
+  satisfyOn: all
+```
 Activities are retrieved in chunks of 100 (or `count`, whichever is smaller)
 
 * If at 90 days of activities => 40 activities retrieved
@@ -187,6 +249,8 @@ You may filter retrieved Activities using an array of subreddits.
 Use **include** to specify which subreddits should be included from results
 
 Example where only activities from /r/mealtimevideos and /r/modsupport will be returned
+
+JSON
 ```json
 {
   "count": 100,
@@ -196,7 +260,17 @@ Example where only activities from /r/mealtimevideos and /r/modsupport will be r
     "include": ["mealtimevideos","modsupport"]
   }
 }
-
+```
+YAML
+```yaml
+window:
+  count: 100
+  duruation: 90 days
+  satisfyOn: any
+  subreddits:
+    include:
+      - mealtimevideos
+      - modsupport
 ```
 
 #### Exclude
@@ -204,6 +278,8 @@ Example where only activities from /r/mealtimevideos and /r/modsupport will be r
 Use **exclude** to specify which subreddits should NOT be in the results
 
 Example where activities from /r/mealtimevideos and /r/modsupport will not be returned in results
+
+JSON
 ```json
 {
   "count": 100,
@@ -214,4 +290,15 @@ Example where activities from /r/mealtimevideos and /r/modsupport will not be re
   }
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+window:
+  count: 100
+  duruation: 90 days
+  satisfyOn: any
+  subreddits:
+    exclude:
+      - mealtimevideos
+      - modsupport
+```
 **Note:** `exclude` will be ignored if `include` is also present.

docs/examples/README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ This directory contains example of valid, ready-to-go configurations for Context
   * [History](/docs/examples/history)
   * [Author](/docs/examples/author)
   * [Regex](/docs/examples/regex)
+  * [Repost](/docs/examples/repost)
+  * [Author and post flairs](/docs/examples/onlyfansFlair)
 * [Toolbox User Notes](/docs/examples/userNotes)
 * [Advanced Concepts](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts)
   * [Rule Sets](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleSets.json5)

docs/examples/advancedConcepts/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ### Named Rules
 
-See [ruleNameReuse.json5](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleNameReuse.json5)
+See **Rule Name Reuse Examples [YAML](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleNameReuse.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleNameReuse.json5)**
 
 ### Check Order
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The `rules` array on a `Checks` can contain both `Rule` objects and `RuleSet` ob
 
 A **Rule Set** is a "nested" set of `Rule` objects with a passing condition specified. These allow you to create more complex trigger behavior by combining multiple rules. 
 
-See **[ruleSets.json5](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleSets.json5)** for a complete example as well as consulting the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FRuleSetJson?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json).
+See **ruleSets [YAML](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleSets.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleSets.json5)** for a complete example as well as consulting the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FRuleSetJson?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json).
 
 ### Rule Order
 

docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleNameReuse.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Auto Remove SP Karma
+    description: >-
+      Remove submission because author has self-promo >10% and posted in karma
+      subs recently
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      # named rules can be referenced at any point in the configuration (where they occur does not matter)
+      # and can be used in any Check
+      # Note: rules do not transfer between subreddit configurations
+      - freekarmasub
+      - name: attr10all
+        kind: attribution
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 90 days
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 100
+    actions:
+      - kind: remove
+      - kind: comment
+        content: >-
+          Your submission was removed because you are over reddit's threshold
+          for self-promotion and recently posted this content in a karma sub
+  - name: Free Karma On Submission Alert
+    description: Check if author has posted this submission in 'freekarma' subreddits
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      # rules can be re-used throughout a configuration by referencing them by name
+      #
+      # The rule name itself can only contain spaces, hyphens and underscores
+      # The value used to reference it will have all of these removed, and lower-cased
+      #
+      # so to reference this rule use the value 'freekarmasub'
+      - name: Free_Karma-SUB
+        kind: recentActivity
+        lookAt: submissions
+        useSubmissionAsReference: true
+        thresholds:
+          - threshold: '>= 1'
+            subreddits:
+              - DeFreeKarma
+              - FreeKarma4U
+              - FreeKarma4You
+              - upvote
+        window: 7 days
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Submission posted {{rules.freekarmasub.totalCount}} times in karma
+          {{rules.freekarmasub.subCount}} subs over
+          {{rules.freekarmasub.window}}: {{rules.freekarmasub.subSummary}}

docs/examples/advancedConcepts/ruleSets.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Self Promo All or low comment
+    description: >-
+      SP >10% of all activities or >10% of submissions with low comment
+      engagement
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      # this attribution rule is looking at all activities
+      #
+      # we want want this one rule to trigger the check because >10% of all activity (submission AND comments) is a good requirement
+      - name: attr10all
+        kind: attribution
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 90 days
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 100
+        # this is a RULE SET
+        #
+        # it is made up of "nested" rules with a pass condition (AND/OR)
+        # if the nested rules pass the condition then the Rule Set triggers the Check
+        #
+        # AND = all nested rules must be triggered to make the Rule Set trigger
+        # AND = any of the nested Rules will be the Rule Set trigger
+      - condition: AND
+        # in this check we use an Attribution >10% on ONLY submissions, which is a lower requirement then the above attribution rule
+        # and combine it with a History rule looking for low comment engagement
+        # to make a "higher" requirement Rule Set our of two low requirement Rules
+        rules:
+          - name: attr20sub
+            kind: attribution
+            criteria:
+              - threshold: '> 10%'
+                thresholdOn: submissions
+                window: 90 days
+              - threshold: '> 10%'
+                thresholdOn: submissions
+                window: 100
+            lookAt: media
+          - name: lowOrOpComm
+            kind: history
+            criteriaJoin: OR
+            criteria:
+              - window: 90 days
+                comment: < 50%
+              - window: 90 days
+                comment: '> 40% OP'
+    actions:
+      - kind: remove
+      - kind: comment
+        content: >-
+          Your submission was removed because you are over reddit's threshold
+          for self-promotion or exhibit low comment engagement

docs/examples/attribution/README.md

@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ Consult the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FCheckJ
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Self Promotion as percentage of all Activities](/docs/examples/attribution/redditSelfPromoAll.json5) - Check if Author is submitting much more than they comment.
-* [Self Promotion as percentage of Submissions](/docs/examplesm/attribution/redditSelfPromoSubmissionsOnly.json5) - Check if any of Author's aggregated submission origins are >10% of their submissions
+* Self Promotion as percentage of all Activities [YAML](/docs/examples/attribution/redditSelfPromoAll.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/attribution/redditSelfPromoAll.json5) - Check if Author is submitting much more than they comment.
+* Self Promotion as percentage of Submissions [YAML](/docs/examples/attribution/redditSelfPromoSubmissionsOnly.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examplesm/attribution/redditSelfPromoSubmissionsOnly.json5) - Check if any of Author's aggregated submission origins are >10% of their submissions

docs/examples/attribution/redditSelfPromoAll.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Self Promo Activities
+    description: >-
+      Check if any of Author's aggregated submission origins are >10% of entire
+      history
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: attr10all
+        kind: attribution
+        # criteria defaults to OR -- so either of these criteria will trigger the rule
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%' # threshold can be a percent or an absolute number
+            # The default is "all" -- calculate percentage of entire history (submissions & comments)
+            #thresholdOn: all
+            #
+            # look at last 90 days of Author's activities (comments and submissions)
+            window: 90 days
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            # look at Author's last 100 activities (comments and submissions)
+            window: 100
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          {{rules.attr10all.largestPercent}}% of
+          {{rules.attr10all.activityTotal}} items over
+          {{rules.attr10all.window}}

docs/examples/attribution/redditSelfPromoSubmissionOnly.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Self Promo Submissions
+    description: >-
+      Check if any of Author's aggregated submission origins are >10% of their
+      submissions
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: attr10sub
+        kind: attribution
+        # criteria defaults to OR -- so either of these criteria will trigger the rule
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%' # threshold can be a percent or an absolute number
+            thresholdOn: submissions # calculate percentage of submissions, rather than entire history (submissions & comments)
+            window: 90 days # look at last 90 days of Author's activities (comments and submissions)
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            thresholdOn: submissions
+            window: 100 # look at Author's last 100 activities (comments and submissions)
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          {{rules.attr10sub.largestPercent}}% of
+          {{rules.attr10sub.activityTotal}} items over
+          {{rules.attr10sub.window}}

docs/examples/author/README.md

@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ Consult the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FAuthorRule
 ### Examples
 
 * Basic examples
-    * [Flair new user Submission](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.json5) - If the Author does not have the `vet` flair then flair the Submission with `New User`
-    * [Flair vetted user Submission](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.json5) - If the Author does have the `vet` flair then flair the Submission with `Vetted`
+    * Flair new user Submission [YAML](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.json5) - If the Author does not have the `vet` flair then flair the Submission with `New User`
+    * Flair vetted user Submission [YAML](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.json5) - If the Author does have the `vet` flair then flair the Submission with `Vetted`
 * Used with other Rules
-    * [Ignore vetted user](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.json5) - Short-circuit the Check if the Author has the `vet` flair
+    * Ignore vetted user [YAML](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.json5) - Short-circuit the Check if the Author has the `vet` flair
     
 ## Filter
 
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ All **Rules** and **Checks** have an optional `authorIs` property that takes an
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Skip recent activity check based on author](/docs/examples/author/authorFilter.json5) - Skip a Recent Activity check for a set of subreddits if the Author of the Submission has any set of flairs.
+* Skip recent activity check based on author [YAML](/docs/examples/author/authorFilter.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/author/authorFilter.json5) - Skip a Recent Activity check for a set of subreddits if the Author of the Submission has any set of flairs.

docs/examples/author/authorFilter.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Karma/Meme Sub Activity
+    description: Report on karma sub activity or meme sub activity if user isn't a memelord
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: freekarma
+        kind: recentActivity
+        lookAt: submissions
+        thresholds:
+          - threshold: '>= 1'
+            subreddits:
+              - DeFreeKarma
+              - FreeKarma4U
+        window: 7 days
+      - name: noobmemer
+        kind: recentActivity
+        # authors filter will be checked before a rule is run. If anything passes then the Rule is skipped -- it is not failed or triggered.
+        # if *all* Rules for a Check are skipped due to authors filter then the Check will fail
+        authorIs:
+          # each property (include/exclude) can contain multiple AuthorCriteria
+          # if any AuthorCriteria passes its test the Rule is skipped
+          #
+          # for an AuthorCriteria to pass all properties present on it must pass
+          #
+          # if include is present it will always run and exclude will be skipped
+          #-include:
+          exclude:
+              # for this to pass the Author of the Submission must not have the flair "Supreme Memer" and have the name "user1" or "user2"
+            - flairText:
+                - Supreme Memer
+              names:
+                - user1
+                - user2
+              # for this to pass the Author of the Submission must not have the flair "Decent Memer"
+            - flairText:
+                - Decent Memer
+        lookAt: submissions
+        thresholds:
+          - threshold: '>= 1'
+            subreddits:
+              - dankmemes
+        window: 7 days
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Author has posted in free karma sub, or in /r/dankmemes and does not
+          have meme flair in this subreddit

docs/examples/author/flairNewUserSubmission.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Flair New User Sub
+    description: Flair submission as sketchy if user does not have vet flair
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: newflair
+        kind: author
+        # rule will trigger if Author does not have "vet" flair text
+        exclude:
+          - flairText:
+              - vet
+    actions:
+      - kind: flair
+        text: New User
+        css: orange

docs/examples/author/flairVettedUserSubmission.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Flair Vetted User Submission
+    description: Flair submission as Approved if user has vet flair
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: newflair
+        kind: author
+        # rule will trigger if Author has "vet" flair text
+        include:
+          - flairText:
+              - vet
+    actions:
+      - kind: flair
+        text: Vetted
+        css: green

docs/examples/author/ignoreVettedUser.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+checks:
+  - name: non-vetted karma/meme activity
+    description: >-
+      Report if Author has SP and has recent karma/meme sub activity and isn't
+      vetted
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      # The Author Rule is best used in conjunction with other Rules --
+      # instead of having to write an AuthorFilter for every Rule where you want to skip it based on Author criteria
+      # you can write one Author Rule and make it fail on the required criteria
+      # so that the check fails and Actions don't run
+      - name: nonvet
+        kind: author
+        exclude:
+          - flairText:
+              - vet
+      - name: attr10
+        kind: attribution
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 90 days
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 100
+      - name: freekarma
+        kind: recentActivity
+        lookAt: submissions
+        thresholds:
+          - threshold: '>= 1'
+            subreddits:
+              - DeFreeKarma
+              - FreeKarma4U
+        window: 7 days
+      - name: memes
+        kind: recentActivity
+        lookAt: submissions
+        thresholds:
+          - threshold: '>= 3'
+            subreddits:
+              - dankmemes
+        window: 7 days
+    # will NOT run if the Author for this Submission has the flair "vet"
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: Author has posted in free karma or meme subs recently

docs/examples/history/README.md

@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ Consult the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FHistoryJSO
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Low Comment Engagement](/docs/examples/history/lowEngagement.json5) - Check if Author is submitting much more than they comment.
-* [OP Comment Engagement](/docs/examples/history/opOnlyEngagement.json5) - Check if Author is mostly engaging only in their own content
+* Low Comment Engagement [YAML](/docs/examples/history/lowEngagement.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/history/lowEngagement.json5) - Check if Author is submitting much more than they comment.
+* OP Comment Engagement [YAML](/docs/examples/history/opOnlyEngagement.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/history/opOnlyEngagement.json5) - Check if Author is mostly engaging only in their own content

docs/examples/history/lowEngagement.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Low Comment Engagement
+    description: Check if Author is submitting much more than they comment
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: lowComm
+        kind: history
+        criteria:
+          - comment: '< 30%'
+            window:
+             # get author's last 90 days of activities or 100 activities, whichever is less
+             duration: 90 days
+             count: 100
+            # trigger if less than 30% of their activities in this time period are comments
+
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Low engagement: comments were {{rules.lowcomm.commentPercent}} of
+          {{rules.lowcomm.activityTotal}} over {{rules.lowcomm.window}}

docs/examples/history/opOnlyEngagement.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Engaging Own Content Only
+    description: Check if Author is mostly engaging in their own content only
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: opOnly
+        kind: history
+        criteria:
+            # trigger if more than 60% of their activities in this time period are comments as OP
+          - comment: '> 60% OP'
+            window:
+              # get author's last 90 days of activities or 100 activities, whichever is less
+              duration: 90 days
+              count: 100
+
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Selfish OP: {{rules.oponly.opPercent}} of
+          {{rules.oponly.commentTotal}} comments over {{rules.oponly.window}}
+          are as OP

docs/examples/onlyfansFlair/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Flair users and submissions
+
+Flair users and submissions based on certain keywords from submitter's profile.
+
+Consult [User Flair schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FUserFlairActionJson?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json) and [Submission Flair schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FFlairActionJson?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json) for a complete reference of the rule's properties.
+
+### Examples
+
+* OnlyFans submissions [YAML](/docs/examples/onlyFansFlair/onlyFansFlair.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/onlyfansFlair/onlyfansFlair.json5) - Check whether submitter has typical OF keywords in their profile and flair both author + submission accordingly.

docs/examples/onlyfansFlair/onlyfansFlair.json5

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+{
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "Flair OF submitters",
+      "description": "Flair submission as OF if user does not have Verified flair and has certain keywords in their profile",
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "authorIs": {
+        "exclude": [
+          {
+            "flairCssClass": ["verified"]
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "name": "OnlyFans strings in description",
+          "kind": "author",
+          "include": [
+            {
+              "description": [
+                "/(cashapp|allmylinks|linktr|onlyfans\\.com)/i",
+                "/(see|check|my|view) (out|of|onlyfans|kik|skype|insta|ig|profile|links)/i",
+                "my links",
+                "$"
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "name": "Set OnlyFans user flair",
+          "kind": "userflair",
+          "flair_template_id": "put-your-onlyfans-user-flair-id-here"
+        },
+        {
+          "name":"Set OF Creator SUBMISSION flair",
+          "kind": "flair",
+          "flair_template_id": "put-your-onlyfans-post-flair-id-here"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+
+    {
+      "name": "Flair posts of OF submitters",
+      "description": "Flair submission as OnlyFans if submitter has OnlyFans userflair (override post flair set by submitter)",
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "name": "Include OF submitters",
+          "kind": "author",
+          "include": [
+            {
+              "flairCssClass": ["onlyfans"]
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "name":"Set OF Creator SUBMISSION flair",
+          "kind": "flair",
+          "flair_template_id": "put-your-onlyfans-post-flair-id-here"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

docs/examples/onlyfansFlair/onlyfansFlair.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Flair OF submitters
+    description: Flair submission as OF if user does not have Verified flair and has
+      certain keywords in their profile
+    kind: submission
+    authorIs:
+      exclude:
+        - flairCssClass:
+            - verified
+    rules:
+      - name: OnlyFans strings in description
+        kind: author
+        include:
+          - description:
+              - '/(cashapp|allmylinks|linktr|onlyfans\.com)/i'
+              - '/(see|check|my|view) (out|of|onlyfans|kik|skype|insta|ig|profile|links)/i'
+              - my links
+              - "$"
+    actions:
+      - name: Set OnlyFans user flair
+        kind: userflair
+        flair_template_id: put-your-onlyfans-user-flair-id-here
+      - name: Set OF Creator SUBMISSION flair
+        kind: flair
+        flair_template_id: put-your-onlyfans-post-flair-id-here
+  - name: Flair posts of OF submitters
+    description: Flair submission as OnlyFans if submitter has OnlyFans userflair (override post flair set by submitter)
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: Include OF submitters
+        kind: author
+        include:
+          - flairCssClass:
+              - onlyfans
+    actions:
+      - name: Set OF Creator SUBMISSION flair
+        kind: flair
+        flair_template_id: put-your-onlyfans-post-flair-id-here

docs/examples/recentActivity/README.md

@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ Consult the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FRecentActi
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Free Karma Subreddits](/docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarma.json5) - Check if the Author has recently posted in any "free karma" subreddits
-* [Submission in Free Karma Subreddits](/docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarmaOnSubmission.json5) - Check if the Author has posted the Submission this check is running on in any "free karma" subreddits recently
+* Free Karma Subreddits [YAML](/docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarma.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarma.json5) - Check if the Author has recently posted in any "free karma" subreddits
+* Submission in Free Karma Subreddits [YAML](/docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarmaOnSubmission.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarmaOnSubmission.json5) - Check if the Author has posted the Submission this check is running on in any "free karma" subreddits recently

docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarma.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Free Karma Alert
+    description: Check if author has posted in 'freekarma' subreddits
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: freekarma
+        kind: recentActivity
+        # // when lookAt is not present this rule will look for submissions and comments
+        #lookAt: comments
+        useSubmissionAsReference: false
+        thresholds:
+            # if the number of activities (sub/comment) found CUMULATIVELY in the subreddits listed is
+            # equal to or greater than 1 then the rule is triggered
+          - threshold: '>= 1'
+            subreddits:
+              - DeFreeKarma
+              - FreeKarma4U
+              - FreeKarma4You
+              - upvote
+        window: 7 days
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          {{rules.freekarma.totalCount}} activities in karma
+          {{rules.freekarma.subCount}} subs over {{rules.freekarma.window}}:
+          {{rules.freekarma.subSummary}}

docs/examples/recentActivity/freeKarmaOnSubmission.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Free Karma On Submission Alert
+    description: Check if author has posted this submission in 'freekarma' subreddits
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: freekarmasub
+        kind: recentActivity
+        # rule will only look at Author's submissions in these subreddits
+        lookAt: submissions
+        # rule will only look at Author's submissions in these subreddits that have the same content (link) as the submission this event was made on
+        # In simpler terms -- rule will only check to see if the same link the author just posted is also posted in these subreddits
+        useSubmissionAsReference: true
+        thresholds:
+          - threshold: '>= 1'
+            subreddits:
+              - DeFreeKarma
+              - FreeKarma4U
+              - FreeKarma4You
+              - upvote
+        window: 7 days
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Submission posted {{rules.freekarmasub.totalCount}} times in karma
+          {{rules.freekarmasub.subCount}} subs over
+          {{rules.freekarmasub.window}}: {{rules.freekarmasub.subSummary}}

docs/examples/regex/README.md

@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ Which can then be used in conjunction with a [`window`](https://github.com/FoxxM
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Trigger if regex matches against the current activity](/docs/examples/regex/matchAnyCurrentActivity.json5)
-* [Trigger if regex matches 5 times against the current activity](/docs/examples/regex/matchThresholdCurrentActivity.json5)
-* [Trigger if regex matches against any part of a Submission](/docs/examples/regex/matchSubmissionParts.json5)
-* [Trigger if regex matches any of Author's last 10 activities](/docs/examples/regex/matchHistoryActivity.json5)
-* [Trigger if regex matches at least 3 of Author's last 10 activities](/docs/examples/regex/matchActivityThresholdHistory.json5)
-* [Trigger if there are 5 regex matches in the Author's last 10 activities](/docs/examples/regex/matchTotalHistoryActivity.json5)
-* [Trigger if there are 5 regex matches in the Author's last 10 comments](/docs/examples/regex/matchSubsetHistoryActivity.json5)
+* Trigger if regex matches against the current activity - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchAnyCurrentActivity.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchAnyCurrentActivity.json5)
+* Trigger if regex matches 5 times against the current activity - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchThresholdCurrentActivity.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchThresholdCurrentActivity.json5)
+* Trigger if regex matches against any part of a Submission - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchSubmissionParts.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchSubmissionParts.json5)
+* Trigger if regex matches any of Author's last 10 activities - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchHistoryActivity.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchHistoryActivity.json5)
+* Trigger if regex matches at least 3 of Author's last 10 activities - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchActivityThresholdHistory.json5) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchActivityThresholdHistory.json5)
+* Trigger if there are 5 regex matches in the Author's last 10 activities - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchTotalHistoryActivity.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchTotalHistoryActivity.json5) 
+* Trigger if there are 5 regex matches in the Author's last 10 comments - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/matchSubsetHistoryActivity.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/matchSubsetHistoryActivity.json5)
+* Remove comments that are spamming discord links - [YAML](/docs/examples/regex/removeDiscordSpam.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/regex/removeDiscordSpam.json5)
+  * Differs from just using automod because this config can allow one-off/organic links from users who DO NOT spam discord links but will still remove the comment if the user is spamming them

docs/examples/regex/matchActivityThresholdHistory.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+    # triggers if more than 3 activities in the last 10 match the regex
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # this differs from "totalMatchThreshold"
+    #
+    # activityMatchThreshold => # of activities from window must match regex
+    # totalMatchThreshold => # of matches across all activities from window must match regex
+    activityMatchThreshold: '> 3'
+    # if `window` is specified it tells the rule to check the current activity as well as the activities returned from `window`
+    # learn more about `window` here https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/blob/master/docs/activitiesWindow.md
+    window: 10

docs/examples/regex/matchAnyCurrentActivity.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # if "matchThreshold" is not specified it defaults to this -- default behavior is to trigger if there are any matches
+    #matchThreshold: "> 0"

docs/examples/regex/matchHistoryActivity.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+    # triggers if any activity in the last 10 (including current activity) match the regex
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # if `window` is specified it tells the rule to check the current activity as well as the activities returned from `window`
+    # learn more about `window` here https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/blob/master/docs/activitiesWindow.md
+    window: 10

docs/examples/regex/matchSubmissionParts.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # triggers if the current activity has more than 0 matches
+    # if the activity is a submission then matches against title, body, and url
+    # if "testOn" is not provided then `title, body` are the defaults
+    testOn:
+      - title
+      - body
+      - url

docs/examples/regex/matchSubsetHistoryActivity.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+    # triggers if there are more than 5 regex matches in the last 10 activities (comments only)
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # this differs from "activityMatchThreshold"
+    #
+    # activityMatchThreshold => # of activities from window must match regex
+    # totalMatchThreshold => # of matches across all activities from window must match regex
+    totalMatchThreshold: '> 5'
+    # if `window` is specified it tells the rule to check the current activity as well as the activities returned from `window`
+    # learn more about `window` here https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/blob/master/docs/activitiesWindow.md
+    window: 10
+    # determines which activities from window to consider
+    # defaults to "all" (submissions and comments)
+    lookAt: comments

docs/examples/regex/matchThresholdCurrentActivity.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # triggers if current activity has greater than 5 matches
+    matchThreshold: '> 5'

docs/examples/regex/matchTotalHistoryActivity.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+name: swear
+kind: regex
+criteria:
+    # triggers if there are more than 5 regex matches in the last 10 activities (comments or submission)
+  - regex: '/fuck|shit|damn/'
+    # this differs from "activityMatchThreshold"
+    #
+    # activityMatchThreshold => # of activities from window must match regex
+    # totalMatchThreshold => # of matches across all activities from window must match regex
+    totalMatchThreshold: '> 5'
+    # if `window` is specified it tells the rule to check the current activity as well as the activities returned from `window`
+    # learn more about `window` here https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/blob/master/docs/activitiesWindow.md
+    window: 10

docs/examples/regex/removeDiscordSpam.json5

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+{
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "remove discord spam",
+      "notifyOnTrigger": true,
+      "description": "remove comments from users who are spamming discord links",
+      "kind": "comment",
+      "authorIs": {
+        "exclude": [
+          {
+            "isMod": true
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "itemIs": [
+        {
+          "removed": false,
+          "approved": false,
+        }
+      ],
+      "condition": "OR",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          // set to false if you want to allow comments with a discord link ONLY IF
+          // the author doesn't have a history of spamming discord links
+          // -- basically allows one-off/organic discord links
+          "enable": true,
+          "name": "linkOnlySpam",
+          "kind": "regex",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              "name": "only link",
+              "regex": "/^.*(discord\\.gg\\/[\\w\\d]+)$/i",
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        {
+          "condition": "AND",
+          "rules": [
+            {
+              "name": "linkAnywhereSpam",
+              "kind": "regex",
+              "criteria": [
+                {
+                  "name": "contains link anywhere",
+                  "regex": "/^.*(discord\\.gg\\/[\\w\\d]+).*$/i",
+                }
+              ]
+            },
+            {
+              "name": "linkAnywhereHistoricalSpam",
+              "kind": "regex",
+              "criteria": [
+                {
+                  "name": "contains links anywhere historically",
+                  "regex": "/^.*(discord\\.gg\\/[\\w\\d]+).*$/i",
+                  "totalMatchThreshold": ">= 3",
+                  "lookAt": "comments",
+                  "window": 10
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "remove"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

docs/examples/regex/removeDiscordSpam.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+checks:
+  - name: remove discord spam
+    notifyOnTrigger: true
+    description: remove comments from users who are spamming discord links
+    kind: comment
+    authorIs:
+      exclude:
+        - isMod: true
+    itemIs:
+      - removed: false
+        approved: false
+    condition: OR
+    rules:
+      - enable: true
+        name: linkOnlySpam
+        kind: regex
+        criteria:
+          - name: only link
+            regex: '/^.*(discord\.gg\/[\w\d]+)$/i'
+      - condition: AND
+        rules:
+          - name: linkAnywhereSpam
+            kind: regex
+            criteria:
+              - name: contains link anywhere
+                regex: '/^.*(discord\.gg\/[\w\d]+).*$/i'
+          - name: linkAnywhereHistoricalSpam
+            kind: regex
+            criteria:
+              - name: contains links anywhere historically
+                regex: '/^.*(discord\.gg\/[\w\d]+).*$/i'
+                totalMatchThreshold: '>= 3'
+                lookAt: comments
+                window: 10
+    actions:
+      - kind: remove

docs/examples/repeatActivity/README.md

@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ With only `gapAllowance: 2` this rule **would trigger** because the the 1 and 2
 
 ## Examples
 
-* [Crosspost Spamming](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/crosspostSpamming.json5) - Check if an Author is spamming their Submissions across multiple subreddits
-* [Burst-posting](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/burstPosting.json5) - Check if Author is crossposting their Submissions in short bursts
+* Crosspost Spamming [JSON](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/crosspostSpamming.json5) | [YAML](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/crosspostSpamming.yaml) - Check if an Author is spamming their Submissions across multiple subreddits
+* Burst-posting [JSON](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/burstPosting.json5) | [YAML](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/burstPosting.yaml) - Check if Author is crossposting their Submissions in short bursts

docs/examples/repeatActivity/burstPosting.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Burstpost Spam
+    description: Check if Author is crossposting in short bursts
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: burstpost
+        kind: repeatActivity
+        # will only look at Submissions in Author's history that contain the same content (link) as the Submission this check was initiated by
+        useSubmissionAsReference: true
+        # the number of non-repeat activities (submissions or comments) to ignore between repeat submissions
+        gapAllowance: 3
+        # if the Author has posted this Submission 6 times, ignoring 3 non-repeat activities between each repeat, then this rule will trigger
+        threshold: '>= 6'
+        # look at all of the Author's submissions in the last 7 days or 100 submissions
+        window:
+          duration: 7 days
+          count: 100
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Author has burst-posted this link {{rules.burstpost.largestRepeat}}
+          times over {{rules.burstpost.window}}

docs/examples/repeatActivity/crosspostSpamming.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Crosspost Spam
+    description: Check if Author is spamming Submissions across subreddits
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: xpostspam
+        kind: repeatActivity
+        # will only look at Submissions in Author's history that contain the same content (link) as the Submission this check was initiated by
+        useSubmissionAsReference: true
+        # if the Author has posted this Submission 5 times consecutively then this rule will trigger
+        threshold: '>= 5'
+        # look at all of the Author's submissions in the last 7 days
+        window: 7 days
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          Author has posted this link {{rules.xpostspam.largestRepeat}} times
+          over {{rules.xpostspam.window}}

docs/examples/repost/README.md

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+The **Repost** rule is used to find reposts for both **Submissions** and **Comments**, depending on what type of **Check** it is used on.
+
+Note: This rule is for searching **all of Reddit** for reposts, as opposed to just the Author of the Activity being checked. If you only want to check for reposts by the Author of the Activity being checked you should use the [Repeat Activity](/docs/examples/repeatActivity) rule.
+
+# TLDR
+
+Out of the box CM generates a repost rule with sensible default behavior without any configuration. You do not need to configure any of below options (facets, modifiers, criteria) yourself in order to have a working repost rule. Default behavior is as follows...
+
+* When looking for Submission reposts CM will find any Submissions with 
+  * a very similar title 
+  * or independent of title...
+     * any crossposts/duplicates
+     * any submissions with the exact URL
+* When looking for Comment reposts CM will do the above AND THEN 
+  * compare the top 50 most-upvoted comments from the top 10 most-upvoted Submissions against the comment being checked
+  * compare any items found from external source (Youtube comments, etc...) against the comment being checked
+
+# Configuration
+
+## Search Facets
+
+ContextMod has several ways to search for reposts -- all of which look at different elements of a Submission in order to find repost candidates. You can define any/all of these **Search Facets** you want to use to search Reddit inside the configuration for the Repost Rule in the `searchOn` property.
+
+### Usage
+
+Facets are specified in the `searchOn` array property within the rule's configuration.
+
+**String**
+
+Specify one or more types of facets as a string to use their default configurations
+
+<details>
+
+YAML
+```yaml
+kind: repost
+criteria:
+  - searchOn:
+      - title
+      - url
+      - crossposts
+```
+
+JSON
+```json5
+{
+  "kind": "repost",
+  "criteria": [
+    {
+      // ...
+      "searchOn": ["title", "url", "crossposts"],
+      // ....
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+**Object**
+
+**string** and object configurations can be mixed
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+kind: repost
+criteria:
+  - searchOn:
+      - title
+      - kind: url
+        matchScore: 90
+      - external
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "kind": "repost",
+  "criteria": [
+    {
+      // ...
+      "searchOn": [
+        "title",
+        {
+          "kind": "url",
+          // could also specify multiple types to use the same config for all
+          //"kind": ["url", "duplicates"]
+          "matchScore": 90,
+          //...
+        },
+        "external"
+      ],
+      // ....
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Facet Types
+
+* **title** -- search reddit for Submissions with a similar title
+* **url** -- search reddit for Submissions with the same URL
+* **duplicates** -- get all Submissions **reddit has identified** as duplicates that are **NOT** crossposts
+  * these are found under *View discussions in other communities* (new reddit) or *other discussions* (old reddit) on the Submission
+* **crossposts** -- get all Submissions where the current Submission is the source of an **official** crosspost
+  * this differs from duplicates in that crossposts use reddit's built-in crosspost functionality, respect subreddit crosspost rules, and link back to the original Submission
+* **external** -- get items from the Submission's link source that may be reposted (currently implemented for **Comment Checks** only)
+  * When the Submission link is for...
+    * **Youtube** -- get top comments on video by replies/like count
+      * **NOTE:** An **API Key** for the [Youtube Data API](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3) must be provided for this facet to work. This can be provided by the operator alongside [bot credentials](/docs/operatorConfiguration.md) or in the top-level `credentials` property for a [subreddit configuration.](https://json-schema.app/view/%23?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Freddit-context-bot%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json)
+
+### Facet Modifiers
+
+For all **Facets**, except for **external**, there are options that be configured to determine if the found Submissions is a "valid" repost IE filtering. These options can be configured **per facet**.
+
+* **matchScore** -- The percentage, as a whole number, of a repost title that must match the title being checked in order to consider both a match
+* **minWordCount** -- The minimum number of words a title must have
+* **caseSensitive** -- If the match comparison should be case-sensitive (defaults to `false`)
+
+Additionally, the current Activity's title and/or each repost's title can be transformed before matching:
+
+* **transformations** -- An array of SearchAndReplace objects used to transform the repost's title
+* **transformationsActivity** -- An array of SearchAndReplace objects used to transform the current Activity's title
+
+#### Modifier Defaults
+
+To make facets easier to use without configuration sensible defaults are applied to each when no other configuration is defined...
+
+* **title**
+  * `matchScore: 85` -- The candidate repost's title must be at least 85% similar to the current Activity's title
+  * `minWordCount: 2` --  The candidate repost's title must have at least 2 words
+
+For `url`,`duplicates`, and `crossposts` the only default is `matchScore: 0` because the assumption is you want to treat any actual dups/x-posts or exact URLs as reposts, regardless of their title.
+
+## Additional Criteria Properties
+
+A **criteria** object may also specify some additional tests to run against the reposts found from searching.
+
+### For Submissions and Comments
+
+#### Occurrences
+
+Define a set of criteria to test against the **number of reposts**, **time reposts were created**, or both.
+
+##### Count
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+kind: repost
+criteria:
+  - searchOn:
+      - title
+      - url
+      - crossposts
+    occurrences:
+      criteria:
+        - count:
+            condition: AND
+            test:
+              - '> 3'
+              - <= 5
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "kind": "repost",
+  "criteria": [
+    {
+      // ...
+      "searchOn": ["title", "url", "crossposts"],
+      "occurrences": {
+        "criteria": [
+          {
+            // passes if BOTH tests are true
+            "count": {
+              "condition": "AND", // default is AND
+              "test": [
+                "> 3", // TRUE if there are GREATER THAN 3 reposts found
+                "<= 5" // TRUE if there are LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 5 reposts found
+              ]
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+</details>
+
+##### Time
+
+Define a test or array of tests to run against **when reposts were created**
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+kind: repost
+criteria:
+  - searchOn:
+      - title
+      - url
+      - crossposts
+    occurrences:
+      criteria:
+        - time:
+            condition: AND
+            test:
+              - testOn: all
+                condition: '> 3 months'
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "kind": "repost",
+  "criteria": [
+    {
+      // ...
+      "searchOn": [
+        "title",
+        "url",
+        "crossposts"
+      ],
+      "occurrences": {
+        "criteria": [
+          {
+            time: {
+              // how to test array of comparisons. AND => all must pass, OR => any must pass
+              "condition": "AND",
+              "test": [
+                {
+                  // which of the found reposts to test the time comparison on
+                  //
+                  // "all"    => ALL reposts must pass time comparison
+                  // "any"    => ANY repost must pass time comparison
+                  // "newest" => The newest (closest in time to now) repost must pass time comparison
+                  // "oldest" => The oldest (furthest in time from now) repost must pass time comparison
+                  //
+                  "testOn": "all",
+                  // Tested items must be OLDER THAN 3 months
+                  "condition": "> 3 months"
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+</details>
+
+
+### For Comments
+
+When the rule is run in a **Comment Check** you may specify text comparisons (like those found in Search Facets) to run on the contents of the repost comments *against* the contents of the comment being checked.
+
+* **matchScore** -- The percentage, as a whole number, of a repost comment that must match the comment being checked in order to consider both a match (defaults to 85% IE `85`)
+* **minWordCount** -- The minimum number of words a comment must have
+* **caseSensitive** -- If the match comparison should be case-sensitive (defaults to `false`)
+
+# Examples
+
+Examples of a *full* CM configuration, including the Repost Rule, in various scenarios. In each scenario the parts of the configuration that affect the rule are indicated.
+
+## Submissions
+
+When the Repost Rule is run on a **Submission Check** IE the activity being checked is a Submission.
+
+### Default Behavior (No configuration)
+
+This is the same behavior described in the [TLDR](#TLDR) section above -- find any submissions with:
+
+* a very similar title (85% or more the same)
+* or ignoring title...
+  * any crossposts/duplicates
+  * any submissions with the exact URL
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+  - name: subRepost
+    description: Check if submission has been reposted
+    kind: submission
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This submission was reposted
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "unmoderated"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "subRepost",
+      "description": "Check if submission has been reposted",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost"
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This submission was reposted"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Search by Title Only
+
+Find any submissions with:
+
+* a very similar title (85% or more the same)
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+  - name: subRepost
+    description: Check if submission has been reposted
+    kind: submission
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - title
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This submission was reposted
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "unmoderated"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "subRepost",
+      "description": "Check if submission has been reposted",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              // specify only title to search on
+              "searchOn": [
+                "title" // uses default configuration since only string is specified
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This submission was reposted"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Search by Title only and specify similarity percentage
+
+* a very similar title (95% or more the same)
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+  - name: subRepost
+    description: Check if submission has been reposted
+    kind: submission
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - kind: title
+                matchScore: '95'
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This submission was reposted
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "unmoderated"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "subRepost",
+      "description": "Check if submission has been reposted",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              // specify only title to search on
+              "searchOn": [
+                {
+                  "kind": "title",
+                  // titles must be 95% or more similar
+                  "matchScore": "95"
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This submission was reposted"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Search by Title, specify similarity percentage, AND any duplicates
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+  - name: subRepost
+    description: Check if submission has been reposted
+    kind: submission
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - duplicates
+              - kind: title
+                matchScore: '95'
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This submission was reposted
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "unmoderated"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "subRepost",
+      "description": "Check if submission has been reposted",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              "searchOn": [
+                // look for duplicates (NON crossposts) using default configuration
+                "duplicates",
+                // search by title
+                {
+                  "kind": "title",
+                  // titles must be 95% or more similar
+                  "matchScore": "95"
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This submission was reposted"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Approve Submission if not reposted in the last month, by title
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+  - name: subRepost
+    description: Check there are no reposts with same title in the last month
+    kind: submission
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - title
+            occurrences:
+              condition: OR
+              criteria:
+                - count:
+                    test:
+                      - < 1
+                - time:
+                    test:
+                      - testOn: newest
+                        condition: '> 1 month'
+    actions:
+      - kind: approve
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "unmoderated"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "subRepost",
+      "description": "Check there are no reposts with same title in the last month",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "submission",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              "searchOn": [
+                "title"
+              ],
+              "occurrences": {
+                // if EITHER criteria is TRUE then it "passes"
+                "condition": "OR",
+                "criteria": [
+                  // first criteria:
+                  // TRUE if there are LESS THAN 1 reposts (no reposts found)
+                  {
+                    "count": {
+                      "test": ["< 1"]
+                    }
+                  },
+                  // second criteria:
+                  // TRUE if the newest repost is older than one month
+                  {
+                    "time": {
+                      "test": [
+                        {
+                          "testOn": "newest",
+                          "condition": "> 1 month"
+                        }
+                      ]
+                    }
+                  }
+                ]
+              },
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          // approve this post since we know it is not a repost of anything within the last month
+          "kind": "approve",
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+
+## Comments
+
+### Default Behavior (No configuration)
+
+This is the same behavior described in the [TLDR](#TLDR) section above -- find any submissions with:
+
+* a very similar title (85% or more the same)
+* or ignoring title...
+  * any crossposts/duplicates
+  * any submissions with the exact URL
+* If comment being checked is on a Submission for Youtube then get top 50 comments on youtube video as well...
+
+AND THEN
+
+* sort submissions by votes
+* take top 20 (upvoted) comments from top 10 (upvoted) submissions
+* sort comments by votes, take top 50 + top 50 external items
+
+FINALLY
+
+* filter all gathered comments by default `matchScore: 85` to find very similar matches
+* rules is triggered if any are found
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - newComm
+checks:
+  - name: commRepost
+    description: Check if comment has been reposted
+    kind: common
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This comment was reposted
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "newComm"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "commRepost",
+      "description": "Check if comment has been reposted",
+      // kind specifies this check is for COMMENTS
+      "kind": "common",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost"
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This comment was reposted"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Search by external (youtube) comments only
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - newComm
+checks:
+  - name: commRepost
+    description: Check if comment has been reposted from youtube
+    kind: comment
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - external
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This comment was reposted from youtube
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "newComm"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "commRepost",
+      "description": "Check if comment has been reposted from youtube",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "comment",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              // specify only external (youtube) to search on
+              "searchOn": [
+                "external"
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This comment was reposted from youtube"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Search by external (youtube) comments only, with higher comment match percentage
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - newComm
+checks:
+  - name: commRepost
+    description: Check if comment has been reposted from youtube
+    kind: comment
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - external
+            matchScore: 95
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: This comment was reposted from youtube
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "newComm"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "commRepost",
+      "description": "Check if comment has been reposted from youtube",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "comment",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              // specify only external (youtube) to search on
+              "searchOn": [
+                "external"
+              ],
+              "matchScore": 95 // matchScore for comments is on criteria instead of searchOn config...
+            },
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This comment was reposted from youtube"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+</details>
+
+### Search by external (youtube) comments and submission URL, with higher comment match percentage
+
+<details>
+
+```yaml
+polling:
+  - newComm
+checks:
+  - name: commRepost
+    description: Check if comment has been reposted
+    kind: comment
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - kind: repost
+        criteria:
+          - searchOn:
+              - external
+              - url
+            matchScore: 95
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        content: >-
+          This comment was reposted from youtube or from submission with the
+          same URL
+```
+
+```json5
+{
+  "polling": [
+    "newComm"
+  ],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "commRepost",
+      "description": "Check if comment has been reposted",
+      // kind specifies this check is for SUBMISSIONS
+      "kind": "comment",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        // repost rule configuration is below
+        //
+        {
+          "kind": "repost",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              // specify only external (youtube) to search on
+              "searchOn": [
+                "external",
+                // can specify any/all submission search facets to acquire comments from
+                "url"
+              ],
+              "matchScore": 95 // matchScore for comments is on criteria instead of searchOn config...
+            },
+          ]
+        },
+        // 
+        // repost rule configuration is above
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "report",
+          "content": "This comment was reposted from youtube or from submission with the same URL"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+</details>

docs/examples/subredditReady/README.md

@@ -11,21 +11,31 @@ All actions for these configurations are non-destructive in that:
 
 **You will have to remove the `report` action and `dryRun` settings yourself.** This is to ensure that you understand the behavior the bot will be performing. If you are unsure of this you should leave them in place until you are certain the behavior the bot is performing is acceptable.
 
+**YAML** is the same format as **automoderator**
+
 ## Submission-based Behavior
 
-### [Remove submissions from users who have used 'freekarma' subs to bypass karma checks](/docs/examples/subredditReady/freekarma.json5)
+### Remove submissions from users who have used 'freekarma' subs to bypass karma checks
+
+[YAML](/docs/examples/subredditReady/freekarma.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/subredditReady/freekarma.json5)
 
 If the user has any activity (comment/submission) in known freekarma subreddits in the past (50 activities or 6 months) then remove the submission.
 
-### [Remove submissions from users who have crossposted the same submission 4 or more times](/docs/examples/subredditReady/crosspostSpam.json5)
+### Remove submissions from users who have crossposted the same submission 4 or more times
+
+[YAML](/docs/examples/subredditReady/crosspostSpam.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/subredditReady/crosspostSpam.yaml)
 
 If the user has crossposted the same submission in the past (50 activities or 6 months) 4 or more times in a row then remove the submission.
 
-### [Remove submissions from users who have crossposted or used 'freekarma' subs](/docs/examples/subredditReady/freeKarmaOrCrosspostSpam.json5)
+### Remove submissions from users who have crossposted or used 'freekarma' subs
+
+[YAML](/docs/examples/subredditReady/freeKarmaOrCrosspostSpam.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/subredditReady/freeKarmaOrCrosspostSpam.json5)
 
 Will remove submission if either of the above two behaviors is detected
 
-### [Remove link submissions where the user's history is comprised of 10% or more of the same link](/docs/examples/subredditReady/selfPromo.json5)
+### Remove link submissions where the user's history is comprised of 10% or more of the same link
+
+[YAML](/docs/examples/subredditReady/selfPromo.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/subredditReady/selfPromo.json5)
 
 If the link origin (youtube author, twitter author, etc. or regular domain for non-media links)
 
@@ -36,6 +46,33 @@ then remove the submission
 
 ## Comment-based behavior
 
-### [Remove comment if the user has posted the same comment 4 or more times in a row](/docs/examples/subredditReady/commentSpam.json5)
+### Remove comment if the user has posted the same comment 4 or more times in a row
+
+[YAML](/docs/examples/subredditReady/commentSpam.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/subredditReady/commentSpam.json5)
 
 If the user made the same comment (with some fuzzy matching) 4 or more times in a row in the past (50 activities or 6 months) then remove the comment.
+
+### Remove comment if it is discord invite link spam
+
+[YAML](/docs/examples/subredditReady/discordSpam.yaml) | [JSON](/docs/examples/subredditReady/discordSpam.json5)
+
+This rule goes a step further than automod can by being more discretionary about how it handles this type of spam. 
+
+* Remove the comment and **ban a user** if:
+  * Comment being checked contains **only** a discord link (no other text) AND
+  * Discord links appear **anywhere** in three or more of the last 10 comments the Author has made
+
+otherwise...
+
+* Remove the comment if:
+  * Comment being checked contains **only** a discord link (no other text) OR
+    * Comment contains a discord link **anywhere** AND
+    * Discord links appear **anywhere** in three or more of the last 10 comments the Author has made
+
+Using these checks ContextMod can more easily distinguish between these use cases for a user commenting with a discord link:
+
+* actual spammers who only spam a discord link
+* users who may comment with a link but have context for it either in the current comment or in their history
+* users who many comment with a link but it's a one-off event (no other links historically)
+
+Additionally, you could modify both/either of these checks to not remove one-off discord link comments but still remove if the user has a historical trend for spamming links

docs/examples/subredditReady/commentSpam.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+polling:
+  - newComm
+checks:
+    # Stop users who spam the same comment many times
+  - name: low xp comment spam
+    description: X-posted comment >=4x
+    kind: comment
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - name: xPostLow
+        kind: repeatActivity
+        # number of "non-repeat" comments allowed between "repeat comments"
+        gapAllowance: 2
+        # greater or more than 4 repeat comments triggers this rule
+        threshold: '>= 4'
+        # retrieve either last 50 comments or 6 months' of history, whichever is less
+        window:
+          count: 50
+          duration: 6 months
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        enable: true
+        content: 'Remove => Posted same comment {{rules.xpostlow.largestRepeat}}x times'
+      - kind: remove
+        enable: true

docs/examples/subredditReady/crosspostSpam.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+#   stop users who post low-effort, crossposted spam submissions
+#
+#   Remove a SUBMISSION if the user has crossposted it at least 4 times in recent history AND
+#   less than 50% of their activity is comments OR more than 40% of those comments are as OP (in the own submissions)
+  - name: low xp spam and engagement
+    description: X-posted 4x and low comment engagement
+    kind: submission
+    itemIs:
+      - removed: false
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - name: xPostLow
+        kind: repeatActivity
+        gapAllowance: 2
+        threshold: '>= 4'
+        window:
+          count: 50
+          duration: 6 months
+      - name: lowOrOpComm
+        kind: history
+        criteriaJoin: OR
+        criteria:
+          - window:
+              count: 100
+              duration: 6 months
+            comment: < 50%
+          - window:
+              count: 100
+              duration: 6 months
+            comment: '> 40% OP'
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          Remove=>{{rules.xpostlow.largestRepeat}} X-P =>
+          {{rules.loworopcomm.thresholdSummary}}
+      - kind: remove
+        enable: true
+      - kind: comment
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          Your submission has been removed because you cross-posted it
+          {{rules.xpostlow.largestRepeat}} times and you have very low
+          engagement outside of making submissions
+        distinguish: true

docs/examples/subredditReady/discordSpam.json5

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+{
+  "polling": ["newComm"],
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "name": "ban discord only spammer",
+      "description": "ban a user who spams only a discord link many times historically",
+      "kind": "comment",
+      "condition": "AND",
+      "rules": [
+        "linkOnlySpam",
+        "linkAnywhereHistoricalSpam",
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "remove"
+        },
+        {
+          "kind": "ban",
+          "content": "spamming discord links"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "remove discord spam",
+      "description": "remove comments from users who only link to discord or mention discord link many times historically",
+      "kind": "comment",
+      "condition": "OR",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "name": "linkOnlySpam",
+          "kind": "regex",
+          "criteria": [
+            {
+              "name": "only link",
+              "regex": "/^.*(discord\\.gg\\/[\\w\\d]+)$/i",
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        {
+          "condition": "AND",
+          "rules": [
+            {
+              "name": "linkAnywhereSpam",
+              "kind": "regex",
+              "criteria": [
+                {
+                  "name": "contains link anywhere",
+                  "regex": "/^.*(discord\\.gg\\/[\\w\\d]+).*$/i",
+                }
+              ]
+            },
+            {
+              "name": "linkAnywhereHistoricalSpam",
+              "kind": "regex",
+              "criteria": [
+                {
+                  "name": "contains links anywhere historically",
+                  "regex": "/^.*(discord\\.gg\\/[\\w\\d]+).*$/i",
+                  "totalMatchThreshold": ">= 3",
+                  "lookAt": "comments",
+                  "window": 10
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "actions": [
+        {
+          "kind": "remove"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

docs/examples/subredditReady/discordSpam.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+polling:
+    - newComm
+checks:
+    - name: ban discord only spammer
+      description: ban a user who spams only a discord link many times historically
+      kind: comment
+      condition: AND
+      rules:
+          - linkOnlySpam
+          - linkAnywhereHistoricalSpam
+      actions:
+          - kind: remove
+          - kind: ban
+            content: spamming discord links
+    - name: remove discord spam
+      description: >-
+          remove comments from users who only link to discord or mention discord
+          link many times historically
+      kind: comment
+      condition: OR
+      rules:
+          - name: linkOnlySpam
+            kind: regex
+            criteria:
+                - name: only link
+                  # single quotes are required to escape special characters
+                  regex: '/^.*(discord\.gg\/[\w\d]+)$/i'
+          - condition: AND
+            rules:
+                - name: linkAnywhereSpam
+                  kind: regex
+                  criteria:
+                      - name: contains link anywhere
+                        # single quotes are required to escape special characters
+                        regex: '/^.*(discord\.gg\/[\w\d]+).*$/i'
+                - name: linkAnywhereHistoricalSpam
+                  kind: regex
+                  criteria:
+                      - name: contains links anywhere historically
+                        # single quotes are required to escape special characters
+                        regex: '/^.*(discord\.gg\/[\w\d]+).*$/i'
+                        totalMatchThreshold: '>= 3'
+                        lookAt: comments
+                        window: 10
+      actions:
+          - kind: remove

docs/examples/subredditReady/freeKarmaOrCrosspostSpam.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+    #   stop users who post low-effort, crossposted spam submissions
+    #
+    #   Remove a SUBMISSION if the user has crossposted it at least 4 times in recent history AND
+    #   less than 50% of their activity is comments OR more than 40% of those comments are as OP (in the own submissions)
+  - name: remove on low xp spam and engagement
+    description: X-posted 4x and low comment engagement
+    kind: submission
+    itemIs:
+      - removed: false
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - name: xPostLow
+        kind: repeatActivity
+        gapAllowance: 2
+        threshold: '>= 4'
+        window:
+          count: 50
+          duration: 6 months
+      - name: lowOrOpComm
+        kind: history
+        criteriaJoin: OR
+        criteria:
+          - window:
+              count: 100
+              duration: 6 months
+            comment: < 50%
+          - window:
+              count: 100
+              duration: 6 months
+            comment: '> 40% OP'
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          Remove=>{{rules.xpostlow.largestRepeat}} X-P =>
+          {{rules.loworopcomm.thresholdSummary}}
+      - kind: remove
+        enable: false
+      - kind: comment
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          Your submission has been removed because you cross-posted it
+          {{rules.xpostlow.largestRepeat}} times and you have very low
+          engagement outside of making submissions
+        distinguish: true
+        dryRun: true
+    # Remove submissions from users who have recent activity in freekarma subs within the last 50 activities or 6 months (whichever is less)
+  - name: freekarma removal
+    description: Remove submission if user has used freekarma sub recently
+    kind: submission
+    itemIs:
+      - removed: false
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - name: freekarma
+        kind: recentActivity
+        window:
+          count: 50
+          duration: 6 months
+        useSubmissionAsReference: false
+        thresholds:
+          - subreddits:
+              - FreeKarma4U
+              - FreeKarma4You
+              - KarmaStore
+              - promote
+              - shamelessplug
+              - upvote
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        enable: true
+        content: 'Remove=> {{rules.newtube.totalCount}} activities in freekarma subs'
+      - kind: remove
+        enable: false
+      - kind: comment
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          Your submission has been removed because you have recent activity in
+          'freekarma' subs
+        distinguish: true
+        dryRun: true

docs/examples/subredditReady/freekarma.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+    # Remove submissions from users who have recent activity in freekarma subs within the last 50 activities or 6 months (whichever is less)
+  - name: freekarma removal
+    description: Remove submission if user has used freekarma sub recently
+    kind: submission
+    itemIs:
+      - removed: false
+    condition: AND
+    rules:
+      - name: freekarma
+        kind: recentActivity
+        window:
+          count: 50
+          duration: 6 months
+        useSubmissionAsReference: false
+        thresholds:
+          - subreddits:
+              - FreeKarma4U
+              - FreeKarma4You
+              - KarmaStore
+              - upvote
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        enable: true
+        content: 'Remove=> {{rules.newtube.totalCount}} activities in freekarma subs'
+      - kind: remove
+        enable: true
+      - kind: comment
+        enable: false
+        content: >-
+          Your submission has been removed because you have recent activity in
+          'freekarma' subs
+        distinguish: true

docs/examples/subredditReady/selfPromo.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+polling:
+  - unmoderated
+checks:
+    #
+    # Stop users who make link submissions with a self-promotional agenda (with reddit's suggested 10% rule)
+    # https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion#wiki_guidelines_for_self-promotion_on_reddit
+    #
+    # Remove a SUBMISSION if the link comprises more than or equal to 10% of users history (100 activities or 6 months) OR
+    #
+    # if link comprises 10% of submission history (100 activities or 6 months)
+    # AND less than 50% of their activity is comments OR more than 40% of those comments are as OP (in the own submissions)
+    #
+  - name: Self-promo all AND low engagement
+    description: Self-promo is >10% for all or just sub and low comment engagement
+    kind: submission
+    condition: OR
+    rules:
+      - name: attr
+        kind: attribution
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '>= 10%'
+            window:
+              count: 100
+              duration: 6 months
+            domains:
+              - 'AGG:SELF'
+      - condition: AND
+        rules:
+          - name: attrsub
+            kind: attribution
+            criteria:
+              - threshold: '>= 10%'
+                thresholdOn: submissions
+                window:
+                  count: 100
+                  duration: 6 months
+                domains:
+                  - 'AGG:SELF'
+          - name: lowOrOpComm
+            kind: history
+            criteriaJoin: OR
+            criteria:
+              - window:
+                  count: 100
+                  duration: 6 months
+                comment: < 50%
+              - window:
+                  count: 100
+                  duration: 6 months
+                comment: '> 40% OP'
+    actions:
+      - kind: report
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          {{rules.attr.largestPercent}}{{rules.attrsub.largestPercent}} of
+          {{rules.attr.activityTotal}}{{rules.attrsub.activityTotal}} items
+          ({{rules.attr.window}}{{rules.attrsub.window}}){{#rules.loworopcomm.thresholdSummary}}
+          =>
+          {{rules.loworopcomm.thresholdSummary}}{{/rules.loworopcomm.thresholdSummary}}
+      - kind: remove
+        enable: false
+      - kind: comment
+        enable: true
+        content: >-
+          Your submission has been removed it comprises 10% or more of your
+          recent history
+          ({{rules.attr.largestPercent}}{{rules.attrsub.largestPercent}}). This
+          is against [reddit's self promotional
+          guidelines.](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion#wiki_guidelines_for_self-promotion_on_reddit)
+        distinguish: true
+        dryRun: true

docs/examples/userNotes/README.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Consult the [schema](https://json-schema.app/view/%23%2Fdefinitions%2FUserNoteCr
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Do not tag user with Good User note](/docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteFilter.json5)
+* Do not tag user with Good User note [JSON](/docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteFilter.json5) | [YAML](/docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteFilter.yaml)
 
 ## Action
 
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ A User Note can also be added to the Author of a Submission or Comment with the
 
 ### Examples
 
-* [Add note on user doing self promotion](/docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteSP.json5)
+* Add note on user doing self promotion [JSON](/docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteSP.json5) | [YAML](/docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteSP.yaml)

docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteFilter.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Self Promo Activities
+    description: Tag SP only if user does not have good contributor user note
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: attr10all
+        kind: attribution
+        author:
+          exclude:
+              # the key of the usernote type to look for https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/wiki/Subreddit-Wikis%3A-usernotes#working-with-note-types
+              # rule will not run if current usernote on Author is of type 'gooduser'
+            - type: gooduser
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 90 days
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 100
+    actions:
+      - kind: usernote
+        # the key of usernote type
+        # https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/wiki/Subreddit-Wikis%3A-usernotes#working-with-note-types
+        type: spamwarn
+        # content is mustache templated
+        content: >-
+          Self Promotion: {{rules.attr10all.titlesDelim}}
+          {{rules.attr10sub.largestPercent}}%

docs/examples/userNotes/usernoteSP.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+checks:
+  - name: Self Promo Activities
+    # check will run on a new submission in your subreddit and look at the Author of that submission
+    description: >-
+      Check if any of Author's aggregated submission origins are >10% of entire
+      history
+    kind: submission
+    rules:
+      - name: attr10all
+        kind: attribution
+        criteria:
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 90 days
+          - threshold: '> 10%'
+            window: 100
+    actions:
+      - kind: usernote
+        # the key of usernote type
+        # https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolbox/wiki/Subreddit-Wikis%3A-usernotes#working-with-note-types
+        type: spamwarn
+        content: >-
+          Self Promotion: {{rules.attr10all.titlesDelim}}
+          {{rules.attr10sub.largestPercent}}%

docs/gettingStartedMod.md

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ This getting started guide is for **reddit moderators** -- that is, someone who
 
 Before continuing with this guide you should first make sure you understand how a ContextMod works. Please review this documentation:
 
-* [How It Works](/docs#how-it-works)
-* [Core Concepts](/docs#concepts)
+* [How It Works](/docs/README.md#how-it-works)
+* [Core Concepts](/docs/README.md#concepts)
 
 # Choose A Bot
 
@@ -36,15 +36,16 @@ If the Operator has communicated that **you should add a bot they control as a m
 
 ___
 
-Ensure that you are in communication with the **operator** for this bot. The bot **will not automatically accept a moderator invitation,** it must be manually done by the bot operator. This is an intentional barrier to ensure moderators and the operator are familiar with their respective needs and have some form of trust.
+Ensure that you are in communication with the **operator** of this bot. The bot **will only accept a moderator invitation if your subreddit has been whitelisted by the operator.** This is an intentional barrier to ensure moderators and the operator are familiar with their respective needs and have some form of trust.
 
 Now invite the bot to moderate your subreddit. The bot should have at least these permissions:
 
 * Manage Users
 * Manage Posts and Comments
 * Manage Flair
-
-Additionally, the bot must have the **Manage Wiki Pages** permission if you plan to use [Toolbox User Notes](https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/wiki/docs/usernotes). If you are not planning on using this feature and do not want the bot to have this permission then you **must** ensure the bot has visibility to the configuration wiki page (detailed below).
+* Manage Wiki Pages
+  * Required to read the moderator-only visible wiki page used to configure the bot
+  * Required to read/write to [Toolbox User Notes](https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/wiki/docs/usernotes)
 
 ## Bring Your Own Bot (BYOB)
 
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ If the operator has communicated that **they want to use a bot you control** thi
 
 **Cons:**
 
-* More setup required for both moderators and operators
+* You must have access to the credentials for the reddit account (bot)
 
 ___
 
@@ -72,15 +73,28 @@ Review the information shown on the invite link webpage and then follow the dire
 
 # Configuring the Bot
 
+The bot's behavior is defined using a configuration, like automoderator, that is stored in the **wiki** of each subreddit it moderates.
+
+The default location for this page is at `https://old.reddit.com/r/YOURSUBERDDIT/wiki/botconfig/contextbot`
+
 ## Setup wiki page
 
+The bot automatically tries to create its configuration wiki page. You can find the result of this in the log for your subreddit in the web interface.
+
+If this fails for some reason you can create the wiki page through the web interface by navigating to your subreddit's tab, opening the [built-in editor (click **View**)](/docs/screenshots/configBox.png), and following the directions in **Create configuration for...** link found there.
+
+If neither of the above approaches work, or you do not wish to use the web interface, expand the section below for directions on how to manually setup the wiki page:
+
+<details>
+
 * Visit the wiki page of the subreddit you want the bot to moderate
   * The default location the bot checks for a configuration is at `https://old.reddit.com/r/YOURSUBERDDIT/wiki/botconfig/contextbot`
   * If the page does not exist create it
 * Ensure the wiki page visibility is restricted
   * On the wiki page click **settings** (**Page settings** in new reddit)
   * Check the box for **Only mods may edit and view** and then **save**
-    * Alternatively, if you did not give the bot the **Manage Wiki Pages** permission then add it to the **allow users to edit page** setting
+
+</details>
 
 ## Procure a configuration
 
@@ -94,25 +108,46 @@ Visit the [Examples](https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/tree/master/docs/exam
 
 After you have found a configuration to use as a starting point:
 
-* In a new tab open the github page for the configuration you want ([example](/docs/examples/repeatActivity/crosspostSpamming.json5))
-* Click the **Raw** button, then select all and copy all of the text to your clipboard.
+* Copy the URL for the configuration file EX `https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod/blob/master/docs/examples/subredditReady/freekarma.json5` and either:
+  * (Easiest) **Load** it into your [subreddit's built-in editor](#using-the-built-in-editor) and **Save**
+  * or on the file's page, click the **Raw** button, select all and copy to your clipboard, and [manually save to your wiki page](#manually-saving)
 
 ### Build Your Own Config
 
-Additionally, you can use [this schema editor](https://json-schema.app/view/%23?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json) to build your configuration. The editor features a ton of handy features:
+CM comes equipped with a [configuration explorer](https://json-schema.app/view/%23?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FApp.json) to help you see all available options, with descriptions and examples, that can be used in your configuration.
 
-* fully annotated configuration data/structure
-* generated examples in json/yaml
-* built-in editor that automatically validates your config
+To create or edit a configuration you should use **CM's buit-in editor** which features:
+* syntax validation and formatting
+* full configuration validation with error highlighting, hints, and fixes
+* hover over properties to see documentation and examples
 
-PROTIP: Find an example config to use as a starting point and then build on it using the editor.
+To use the editor either:
+* [use your subreddit's built-in editor](#using-the-built-in-editor)
+* or use the public editor at https://cm.foxxmd.dev/config
+
+PROTIP: Find an [example config](#using-an-example-config) to use as a starting point and then build on it using the editor.
 
 ## Saving Your Configuration
 
-* Open the wiki page you created in the [previous step](#setup-wiki-page) and click **edit**
+### Using the built-in Editor
+
+In the web interface each subreddit's tab has access to the built-in editor. Use this built-in editor to automatically create, load, or save the configuration for that subreddit's wiki.
+
+* Visit the tab for the subreddit you want to edit the configuration of
+* Open the [built-in editor by click **View**](/docs/screenshots/configBox.png)
+* Edit your configuration
+* Follow the directions on the **Save to r/..** link found at the top of the editor to automatically save your configuration
+
+### Manually Saving
+
+<details>
+
+* Open the wiki page you created in the [wiki setup step](#setup-wiki-page) and click **edit**
   * Copy-paste your configuration into the wiki text box
   * Save the edited wiki page
 
+</details>
+
 ___
 
 The bot automatically checks for new configurations on your wiki page every 5 minutes. If your operator has the web interface accessible you may login there and force the config to update on your subreddit.

docs/gettingStartedOperator.md

@@ -22,13 +22,14 @@ PROTIP: Using a container management tool like [Portainer.io CE](https://www.por
 
 ### [Dockerhub](https://hub.docker.com/r/foxxmd/context-mod)
 
-```
-foxxmd/context-mod:latest
-```
+An example of starting the container using the [minimum configuration](/docs/operatorConfiguration.md#minimum-config) with a [configuration file](/docs/operatorConfiguration.md#defining-configuration-via-file):
+
+* Bind the folder where the config is located on your host machine into the container `-v /host/path/folder:/config`
+* Tell CM where to find the config using an env `-e "OPERATOR_CONFIG=/config/myConfig.yaml"`
+* Expose the web interface using the container port `8085`
 
-Adding **environmental variables** to your `docker run` command will pass them through to the app EX:
 ```
-docker run -d -e "CLIENT_ID=myId" ... foxxmd/context-mod
+docker run -d -e "OPERATOR_CONFIG=/config/myConfig.yaml" -v /host/path/folder:/config -p 8085:8085 foxxmd/context-mod
 ```
 
 ### Locally
@@ -47,9 +48,27 @@ npm install
 tsc -p .
 ```
 
+An example of running CM using the [minimum configuration](/docs/operatorConfiguration.md#minimum-config) with a [configuration file](/docs/operatorConfiguration.md#defining-configuration-via-file):
+
+```bash
+node src/index.js run
+```
+
 ### [Heroku Quick Deploy](https://heroku.com/about)
 [![Deploy](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.svg)](https://dashboard.heroku.com/new?template=https://github.com/FoxxMD/context-mod)
 
+This template provides a **web** and **worker** dyno for heroku.
+
+* **Web** -- Will run the bot **and** the web interface for ContextMod.
+* **Worker** -- Will run **just** the bot.
+
+Be aware that Heroku's [free dyno plan](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/free-dyno-hours#dyno-sleeping) enacts some limits:
+
+* A **Web** dyno will go to sleep (pause) after 30 minutes without web activity -- so your bot will ALSO go to sleep at this time
+* The **Worker** dyno **will not** go to sleep but you will NOT be able to access the web interface. You can, however, still see how Cm is running by reading the logs for the dyno.
+
+If you want to use a free dyno it is recommended you perform first-time setup (bot authentication and configuration, testing, etc...) with the **Web** dyno, then SWITCH to a **Worker** dyno so it can run 24/7.
+
 # Bot Authentication
 
 Next you need to create a bot and authenticate it with Reddit. Follow the [bot authentication guide](/docs/botAuthentication.md) to complete this step.

docs/imageComparison.md

@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+# Overview
+
+ContextMod supports comparing image content, for the purpose of detecting duplicates, with two different but complimentary systems. Image comparison behavior is available for the following rules:
+
+* [Recent Activity](/docs/examples/recentActivity)
+* Repeat Activity (In-progress)
+
+To enable comparisons reference the example below (at the top-level of your rule) and configure as needed:
+
+JSON
+```json5
+{
+  "name": "ruleWithImageDetection",
+  "kind": "recentActivity",
+  // Add block below...
+  // 
+  "imageDetection": {
+    // enables image comparison
+    "enable": true,
+    // The difference, in percentage, between the reference submission and the submissions being checked
+    // must be less than this number to consider the images "the same"
+    "threshold": 5,
+    // optional
+    // set the behavior for determining if image comparison should occur on a URL:
+    //
+    // "extension" => try image detection if URL ends in a known image extension (jpeg, gif, png, bmp, etc.)
+    // "unknown"   => try image detection if URL ends in known image extension OR there is no extension OR the extension is unknown (not video, html, doc, etc...)
+    // "all"       => ALWAYS try image detection, regardless of URL extension
+    //
+    // if fetchBehavior is not defined then "extension" is the default
+    "fetchBehavior": "extension",
+  },
+  //
+  // And above ^^^
+  //...
+}
+```
+YAML
+```yaml
+name: ruleWithImageDetection
+kind: recentActivity
+  enable: true
+  threshold: 5
+  fetchBehavior: extension
+
+```
+
+**Perceptual Hashing** (`hash`) and **Pixel Comparisons** (`pixel`) may be used at the same time. Refer to the documentation below to see how they interact.
+
+**Note:** Regardless of `fetchBehavior`, if the response from the URL does not indicate it is an image then image detection will not occur. IE Response `Content-Type` must contain `image`
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Both image comparison systems require [Sharp](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/) as a dependency. Most modern operating systems running Node.js >= 12.13.0 do not require installing additional dependencies in order to use Sharp. 
+
+If you are using the docker image for ContextMod (`foxxmd/context-mod`) Sharp is built-in.
+
+If you are installing ContextMod using npm then **Sharp should be installed automatically as an optional dependency.** 
+
+**If you do not want to install it automatically** install ContextMod with the following command:
+
+```
+npm install --no-optional
+```
+
+If you are using ContextMod as part of a larger project you may want to require Sharp in your own package:
+
+```
+npm install sharp@0.29.1 --save
+```
+
+# Comparison Systems
+
+## Perceptual Hashing
+
+[Perceptual Hashing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing) creates a text fingerprint of an image by:
+
+* Dividing up the image into a grid
+* Using an algorithm to derive a value from the pixels in each grid
+* Adding up all the values to create a unique string (the "fingerprint")
+
+An example of how a perceptual hash can work [can be found here.](https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/?/archives/432-Looks-Like-It.html)
+
+ContextMod uses [blockhash-js](https://github.com/commonsmachinery/blockhash-js) which is a javascript implementation of the algorithm described in the paper [Block Mean Value Based Image Perceptual Hashing by Bian Yang, Fan Gu and Xiamu Niu.](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4041692)
+
+
+**Advantages**
+
+* Low memory requirements and not CPU intensive
+* Does not require any image transformations
+* Hash results can be stored to make future comparisons even faster and skip downloading images (cached by url)
+* Resolution-independent
+
+**Disadvantages**
+
+* Hash is weak when image differences are based only on color
+* Hash is weak when image contains lots of text
+* Higher accuracy requires larger calculation (more bits required)
+
+**When should I use it?**
+
+* General duplicate detection
+* Comparing many images
+* Comparing the same images often
+
+### How To Use
+
+If `imageDetection.enable` is `true` then hashing is enabled by default and no further configuration is required.
+
+To further configure hashing refer to this code block:
+
+```json5
+{
+  "name": "ruleWithImageDetectionAndConfiguredHashing",
+  "kind": "recentActivity",
+  "imageDetection": {
+    "enable": true,
+    // Add block below...
+    //
+    "hash": {
+      // enable or disable hash comparisons (enabled by default)
+      "enable": true,
+      // determines accuracy of hash and granularity of hash comparison (comparison to other hashes)
+      // the higher the bits the more accurate the comparison
+      //
+      // NOTE: Hashes of different sizes (bits) cannot be compared. If you are caching hashes make sure all rules where results may be shared use the same bit count to ensure hashes can be compared. Otherwise hashes will be recomputed.
+      "bits": 32,
+      // default is 32 if not defined
+      //
+      // number of seconds to cache an image hash
+      "ttl": 60,
+      // default is 60 if not defined
+      //
+      // "High Confidence" Threshold
+      // If the difference in comparison is equal to or less than this number the images are considered the same and pixel comparison WILL NOT occur
+      //
+      // Defaults to the parent-level `threshold` value if not present
+      //
+      // Use null if you want pixel comparison to ALWAYS occur (softThreshold must be present)
+      "hardThreshold": 5,
+      //
+      // "Low Confidence" Threshold -- only used if `pixel` is enabled
+      // If the difference in comparison is:
+      //
+      // 1) equal to or less than this value and
+      // 2) the value is greater than `hardThreshold`
+      //
+      // the images will be compared using the `pixel` method
+      "softThreshold": 0,
+    },
+    //
+    // And above ^^^
+    //"pixel": {...}
+  }
+  //...
+}
+```
+YAML
+```yaml
+name: ruleWithImageDetectionAndConfiguredHashing
+kind: recentActivity
+imageDetection:
+  enable: true
+  hash:
+    enable: true
+    bits: 32
+    ttl: 60
+    hardThreshold: 5
+    softThreshold: 0
+```
+
+## Pixel Comparison
+
+This approach is as straight forward as it sounds. Both images are compared, pixel by pixel, to determine the difference between the two. ContextMod uses [pixelmatch](https://github.com/mapbox/pixelmatch) to do the comparison.
+
+**Advantages**
+
+* Extremely accurate, high-confidence on difference percentage
+* Strong when comparing text-based images or color-only differences
+
+**Disadvantages**
+
+* High memory requirements (10-30MB per comparison) and CPU intensive
+* Weak against similar images with different aspect ratios
+* Requires image transformations (resize, crop) before comparison
+* Can only store image-to-image results (no single image fingerprints)
+
+**When should I use it?**
+
+* Require very high accuracy in comparison results
+* Comparing mostly text-based images or subtle color/detail differences
+* As a secondary, high-confidence confirmation of comparison result after hashing
+
+### How To Use
+
+By default pixel comparisons **are not enabled.** They must be explicitly enabled in configuration.
+
+Pixel comparisons will be performed in either of these scenarios:
+
+* pixel is enabled, hashing is enabled and `hash.softThreshold` is defined
+  * When a comparison occurs that is less different than `softThreshold` but more different then `hardThreshold` (or `"hardThreshold": null`), then pixel comparison will occur as a high-confidence check
+  * Example
+    * hash comparison => 7% difference
+    * `"softThreshold": 10`
+    * `"hardThreshold": 4`
+* `hash.enable` is `false` and `pixel.enable` is true
+  * hashing is skipped entirely and only pixel comparisons are performed 
+
+To configure pixel comparisons refer to this code block:
+
+```json5
+{
+  "name": "ruleWithImageDetectionAndPixelEnabled",
+  "kind": "recentActivity",
+  "imageDetection": {
+    //"hash": {...}
+    "pixel": {
+      // enable or disable pixel comparisons (disabled by default)
+      "enable": true,
+      // if the comparison difference percentage is equal to or less than this value the images are considered the same
+      //
+      // if not defined the value from imageDetection.threshold will be used
+      "threshold": 5
+    }
+  },
+  //...
+}
+```
+YAML
+```yaml
+name: ruleWithImageDetectionAndPixelEnabled
+kind: recentActivity
+imageDetection:
+  pixel:
+    enable: true
+    threshold: 5
+```

docs/operatorConfiguration.md

@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ configuration.
 **Note:** When reading the **schema** if the variable is available at a level of configuration other than **FILE** it will be
 noted with the same symbol as above. The value shown is the default.
 
-* To load a JSON configuration (for **FILE**) **from the command line** use the `-c` cli argument EX: `node src/index.js -c /path/to/JSON/config.json`
-* To load a JSON configuration (for **FILE**) **using an environmental variable** use `OPERATOR_CONFIG` EX: `OPERATOR_CONFIG=/path/to/JSON/config.json`
+## Defining Configuration Via File
+
+* **from the command line**  use the `-c` cli argument EX: `node src/index.js -c /path/to/JSON/config.json`
+* **using an environmental variable**  use `OPERATOR_CONFIG` EX: `OPERATOR_CONFIG=/path/to/JSON/config.json`
 
 [**See the Operator Config Schema here**](https://json-schema.app/view/%23?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FFoxxMD%2Fcontext-mod%2Fmaster%2Fsrc%2FSchema%2FOperatorConfig.json)
 
@@ -121,18 +123,41 @@ Below are examples of the minimum required config to run the application using a
 Using **FILE**
 <details>
 
+CM will look for a file configuration at `PROJECT_DIR/config.yaml` by default [or you can specify your own location.](#defining-configuration-via-file)
+
+YAML
+```yaml
+operator:
+  name: YourRedditUsername
+bots:
+  - credentials:
+      clientId: f4b4df1c7b2
+      clientSecret: 34v5q1c56ub
+web:
+  credentials:
+    clientId: f4b4df1c7b2
+    clientSecret: 34v5q1c56ub
+```
+JSON
 ```json5
 {
+  "operator": {
+    "name": "YourRedditUsername"
+  },
   "bots": [
     {
       "credentials": {
         "clientId": "f4b4df1c7b2",
-        "clientSecret": "34v5q1c56ub",
-        "refreshToken": "34_f1w1v4",
-        "accessToken": "p75_1c467b2"
+        "clientSecret": "34v5q1c56ub"
       }
     }
-  ]
+  ],
+  "web": {
+    "credentials": {
+      "clientId": "f4b4df1c7b2",
+      "clientSecret": "34v5q1c56ub"
+    }
+  }
 }
 ```
 
@@ -143,10 +168,9 @@ Using **ENV** (`.env`)
 <details>
 
 ```
+OPERATOR=YourRedditUsername
 CLIENT_ID=f4b4df1c7b2
 CLIENT_SECRET=34v5q1c56ub
-REFRESH_TOKEN=34_f1w1v4
-ACCESS_TOKEN=p75_1c467b2
 ```
 
 </details>
@@ -175,6 +199,11 @@ An example of using multiple configuration levels together IE all are provided t
   }
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+logging:
+  level: debug
+```
 
 </details>
 
@@ -220,6 +249,30 @@ See the [Architecture Docs](/docs/serverClientArchitecture.md) for more informat
 
 <details>
 
+YAML
+```yaml
+bots:
+  - credentials:
+      clientId: f4b4df1c7b2
+      clientSecret: 34v5q1c56ub
+      refreshToken: 34_f1w1v4
+      accessToken: p75_1c467b2
+web:
+  credentials:
+    clientId: f4b4df1c7b2
+    clientSecret: 34v5q1c56ub
+    redirectUri: 'http://localhost:8085/callback'
+  clients:
+      # server application running on this same CM instance
+    - host: 'localhost:8095'
+      secret: localSecret
+      # a server application running somewhere else
+    - host: 'mySecondContextMod.com:8095'
+      secret: anotherSecret
+api:
+  secret: localSecret
+```
+JSON
 ```json5
 {
   "bots": [
@@ -289,3 +342,14 @@ A caching object in the json configuration:
  }
 }
 ```
+YAML
+```yaml
+provider:
+  store: memory
+  ttl: 60
+  max: 500
+  host: localhost
+  port: 6379
+  auth_pass: null
+  db: 0
+```

docs/webInterface.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+## Editing/Updating Your Config
+
+* Open the editor for your subreddit
+    * In the web dashboard \-> r/YourSubreddit \-> Config -> **View** [(here)](/docs/screenshots/config/config.jpg)
+* Follow the directions on the [link at the top of the window](/docs/screenshots/config/save.png) to enable config editing using your moderator account
+    * After enabling editing just click "save" at any time to save your config
+    * After you have added/edited your config the bot will detect changes within 5 minutes or you can manually trigger it by clicking **Update**
+
+## General Config (Editor) Tips
+
+* The editor will automatically validate your [syntax (formatting)](/docs/screenshots/config/syntax.png) and [config correctness](/docs/screenshots/config/correctness.png) (property names, required properties, etc.)
+    * These show up as squiggly lines like in Microsoft Word and as a [list at the bottom of the editor](/docs/screenshots/config/errors.png)
+* In your config all **Checks** and **Actions** have two properties that control how they behave:
+    * [**Enable**](/docs/screenshots/config/enable.png) (defaults to `enable: true`) -- Determines if the check or action is run, at all
+    * **Dryrun** (defaults to `dryRun: false`) -- When `true` the check or action will run but any **Actions** that may be triggered will "pretend" to execute but not actually talk to the Reddit API.
+      * Use `dryRun` to test your config without the bot making any changes on reddit
+    * When starting out with a new config it is recommended running the bot with remove/ban actions **disabled**
+        * Use `report` actions to get reports in your modqueue from the bot that describe what it detected and what it would do about it
+        * Once the bot is behaving as desired (no false positives or weird behavior) destructive actions can be enabled or turned off of dryrun
+
+## Web Dashboard Tips
+
+* Use the [**Overview** section](/docs/screenshots/botOperations.png) to control the bot at a high-level
+* You can **manually run** the bot on any activity (comment/submission) by pasting its permalink into the [input field below the Overview section](/docs/screenshots/runInput.png) and hitting one of the **run buttons**
+    * **Dry run** will make the bot run on the activity but it will only **pretend** to run actions, if triggered. This is super useful for testing your config without consequences
+    * **Run** will do everything
+* All of the bot's activity is shown in real-time in the [log section](/docs/screenshots/logs.png)
+    * This will output the results of all run checks/rules and any actions that run
+* You can view summaries of all activities that triggered a check (had actions run) by clicking on [Actioned Events](/docs/screenshots/actionsEvents.png)
+    * This includes activities run with dry run

heroku.Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+FROM node:16-alpine3.14
+
+ENV TZ=Etc/GMT
+
+# vips required to run sharp library for image comparison
+RUN echo "http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.14/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories \
+    && apk --update add vips
+
+RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone
+
+WORKDIR /usr/app
+
+COPY package*.json ./
+COPY tsconfig.json .
+
+RUN npm install
+
+ADD . /usr/app
+
+RUN npm run build
+
+ENV NPM_CONFIG_LOGLEVEL debug
+
+ARG log_dir=/home/node/logs
+RUN mkdir -p $log_dir
+VOLUME $log_dir
+ENV LOG_DIR=$log_dir
+
+CMD [ "node", "src/index.js", "run", "all",  "--port $PORT"]

heroku.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 build:
   docker:
-    worker: Dockerfile
+    web: heroku.Dockerfile
+    worker: heroku.Dockerfile

package.json

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
     "test": "echo \"Error: no tests installed\" && exit 1",
     "build": "tsc",
     "start": "node src/index.js run",
-    "guard": "ts-auto-guard src/JsonConfig.ts",
     "schema": "npm run -s schema-app & npm run -s schema-ruleset & npm run -s schema-rule & npm run -s schema-action & npm run -s schema-config",
     "schema-app": "typescript-json-schema tsconfig.json JSONConfig --out src/Schema/App.json --required --tsNodeRegister --refs",
     "schema-ruleset": "typescript-json-schema tsconfig.json RuleSetJson --out src/Schema/RuleSet.json --required --tsNodeRegister --refs",
@@ -26,13 +25,17 @@
   "license": "ISC",
   "dependencies": {
     "@awaitjs/express": "^0.8.0",
+    "@googleapis/youtube": "^2.0.0",
+    "@stdlib/regexp-regexp": "^0.0.6",
     "ajv": "^7.2.4",
+    "ansi-regex": ">=5.0.1",
     "async": "^3.2.0",
     "autolinker": "^3.14.3",
     "body-parser": "^1.19.0",
     "cache-manager": "^3.4.4",
     "cache-manager-redis-store": "^2.0.0",
     "commander": "^8.0.0",
+    "comment-json": "^4.1.1",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.3.5",
     "dayjs": "^1.10.5",
     "deepmerge": "^4.2.2",
@@ -46,36 +49,42 @@
     "express-socket.io-session": "^1.3.5",
     "fast-deep-equal": "^3.1.3",
     "fuse.js": "^6.4.6",
+    "globrex": "^0.1.2",
     "got": "^11.8.2",
     "he": "^1.2.0",
     "http-proxy": "^1.18.1",
-    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
+    "image-size": "^1.0.0",
     "json5": "^2.2.0",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",
+    "leven": "^3.1.0",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "lru-cache": "^6.0.0",
-    "monaco-editor": "^0.27.0",
     "mustache": "^4.2.0",
     "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
     "normalize-url": "^6.1.0",
     "object-hash": "^2.2.0",
     "p-event": "^4.2.0",
+    "p-map": "^4.0.0",
     "passport": "^0.4.1",
     "passport-custom": "^1.1.1",
     "passport-jwt": "^4.0.0",
+    "pixelmatch": "^5.2.1",
+    "pony-cause": "^1.1.1",
     "pretty-print-json": "^1.0.3",
     "safe-stable-stringify": "^1.1.1",
     "snoostorm": "^1.5.2",
     "snoowrap": "^1.23.0",
     "socket.io": "^4.1.3",
+    "string-similarity": "^4.0.4",
     "tcp-port-used": "^1.0.2",
     "triple-beam": "^1.3.0",
     "typescript": "^4.3.4",
     "webhook-discord": "^3.7.7",
-    "winston": "FoxxMD/winston#fbab8de969ecee578981c77846156c7f43b5f01e",
+    "winston": "github:FoxxMD/winston#fbab8de969ecee578981c77846156c7f43b5f01e",
     "winston-daily-rotate-file": "^4.5.5",
     "winston-duplex": "^0.1.1",
     "winston-transport": "^4.4.0",
+    "yaml": "2.0.0-10",
     "zlib": "^1.0.5"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
@@ -87,6 +96,7 @@
     "@types/express": "^4.17.13",
     "@types/express-session": "^1.17.4",
     "@types/express-socket.io-session": "^1.3.6",
+    "@types/globrex": "^0.1.1",
     "@types/he": "^1.1.1",
     "@types/http-proxy": "^1.17.7",
     "@types/js-yaml": "^4.0.1",
@@ -100,10 +110,16 @@
     "@types/object-hash": "^2.1.0",
     "@types/passport": "^1.0.7",
     "@types/passport-jwt": "^3.0.6",
+    "@types/pixelmatch": "^5.2.4",
+    "@types/sharp": "^0.29.2",
+    "@types/string-similarity": "^4.0.0",
     "@types/tcp-port-used": "^1.0.0",
     "@types/triple-beam": "^1.3.2",
-    "ts-auto-guard": "*",
+    "ts-essentials": "^9.1.2",
     "ts-json-schema-generator": "^0.93.0",
-    "typescript-json-schema": "^0.50.1"
+    "typescript-json-schema": "~0.53"
+  },
+  "optionalDependencies": {
+    "sharp": "^0.29.1"
   }
 }

src/Action/ActionFactory.ts

@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ import ApproveAction, {ApproveActionConfig} from "./ApproveAction";
 import BanAction, {BanActionJson} from "./BanAction";
 import {MessageAction, MessageActionJson} from "./MessageAction";
 import {SubredditResources} from "../Subreddit/SubredditResources";
-import Snoowrap from "snoowrap";
+import {UserFlairAction, UserFlairActionJson} from './UserFlairAction';
+import {ExtendedSnoowrap} from '../Utils/SnoowrapClients';
 
 export function actionFactory
-(config: ActionJson, logger: Logger, subredditName: string, resources: SubredditResources, client: Snoowrap): Action {
+(config: ActionJson, logger: Logger, subredditName: string, resources: SubredditResources, client: ExtendedSnoowrap): Action {
     switch (config.kind) {
         case 'comment':
             return new CommentAction({...config as CommentActionJson, logger, subredditName, resources, client});
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ export function actionFactory
             return new ReportAction({...config as ReportActionJson, logger, subredditName, resources, client});
         case 'flair':
             return new FlairAction({...config as FlairActionJson, logger, subredditName, resources, client});
+        case 'userflair':
+            return new UserFlairAction({...config as UserFlairActionJson, logger, subredditName, resources, client});
         case 'approve':
             return new ApproveAction({...config as ApproveActionConfig, logger, subredditName, resources, client});
         case 'usernote':

src/Action/ApproveAction.ts

@@ -1,39 +1,94 @@
-import {ActionJson, ActionConfig} from "./index";
+import {ActionJson, ActionConfig, ActionOptions} from "./index";
 import Action from "./index";
-import Snoowrap, {Comment, Submission} from "snoowrap";
+import Snoowrap from "snoowrap";
 import {RuleResult} from "../Rule";
 import {ActionProcessResult} from "../Common/interfaces";
+import Submission from "snoowrap/dist/objects/Submission";
+import Comment from "snoowrap/dist/objects/Comment";
 
 export class ApproveAction extends Action {
+
+    targets: ApproveTarget[]
+
     getKind() {
         return 'Approve';
     }
 
+    constructor(options: ApproveOptions) {
+        super(options);
+        const {
+            targets = ['self']
+        } = options;
+
+        this.targets = targets;
+    }
+
     async process(item: Comment | Submission, ruleResults: RuleResult[], runtimeDryrun?: boolean): Promise<ActionProcessResult> {
         const dryRun = runtimeDryrun || this.dryRun;
-        //snoowrap typing issue, thinks comments can't be locked
-        // @ts-ignore
-        if (item.approved) {
-            this.logger.warn('Item is already approved');
-            return {
-                dryRun,
-                success: false,
-                result: 'Item is already approved'
+        const touchedEntities = [];
+
+        const realTargets = item instanceof Submission ? ['self'] : this.targets;
+
+        for(const target of realTargets) {
+            let targetItem = item;
+            if(target !== 'self' && item instanceof Comment) {
+                targetItem = await this.resources.getActivity(this.client.getSubmission(item.link_id));
+            }
+
+            // @ts-ignore
+            if (targetItem.approved) {
+                const msg = `${target === 'self' ? 'Item' : 'Comment\'s parent Submission'} is already approved`;
+                this.logger.warn(msg);
+                return {
+                    dryRun,
+                    success: false,
+                    result: msg
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (!dryRun) {
+                // make sure we have an actual item and not just a plain object from cache
+                if(target !== 'self' && !(targetItem instanceof Submission)) {
+                    // @ts-ignore
+                    targetItem = await this.client.getSubmission((item as Comment).link_id).fetch();
+                }
+                // @ts-ignore
+                touchedEntities.push(await targetItem.approve());
+
+                if(target === 'self') {
+                    // @ts-ignore
+                    item.approved = true;
+                    await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item);
+                } else if(await this.resources.hasActivity(targetItem)) {
+                    // @ts-ignore
+                    targetItem.approved = true;
+                    await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(targetItem);
+                }
             }
         }
-        if (!dryRun) {
-            // @ts-ignore
-            await item.approve();
-        }
+
         return {
             dryRun,
             success: true,
+            touchedEntities
         }
     }
 }
 
-export interface ApproveActionConfig extends ActionConfig {
+export type ApproveTarget = 'self' | 'parent';
 
+export interface ApproveOptions extends ApproveActionConfig, ActionOptions {}
+
+export interface ApproveActionConfig extends ActionConfig {
+    /**
+     * Specify which Activities to approve
+     *
+     * This setting is only applicable if the Activity being acted on is a **comment**. On a **submission** the setting does nothing
+     *
+     * * self => approve activity being checked (comment)
+     * * parent => approve parent (submission) of activity being checked (comment)
+     * */
+    targets?: ApproveTarget[]
 }
 
 /**

src/Action/BanAction.ts

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export class BanAction extends Action {
         const renderedBody = content === undefined ? undefined : await renderContent(content, item, ruleResults, this.resources.userNotes);
         const renderedContent = renderedBody === undefined ? undefined : `${renderedBody}${await this.resources.generateFooter(item, this.footer)}`;
 
+        const touchedEntities = [];
         let banPieces = [];
         banPieces.push(`Message: ${renderedContent === undefined ? 'None' : `${renderedContent.length > 100 ? `\r\n${renderedContent}` : renderedContent}`}`);
         banPieces.push(`Reason:  ${this.reason || 'None'}`);
@@ -50,18 +51,20 @@ export class BanAction extends Action {
             // @ts-ignore
             const fetchedSub = await item.subreddit.fetch();
             const fetchedName = await item.author.name;
-            await fetchedSub.banUser({
+            const bannedUser = await fetchedSub.banUser({
                 name: fetchedName,
                 banMessage: renderedContent === undefined ? undefined : renderedContent,
                 banReason: this.reason,
                 banNote: this.note,
                 duration: this.duration
             });
+            touchedEntities.push(bannedUser);
         }
         return {
             dryRun,
             success: true,
-            result: `Banned ${item.author.name} ${durText}${this.reason !== undefined ? ` (${this.reason})` : ''}`
+            result: `Banned ${item.author.name} ${durText}${this.reason !== undefined ? ` (${this.reason})` : ''}`,
+            touchedEntities
         };
     }
 }

src/Action/CommentAction.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import Submission from "snoowrap/dist/objects/Submission";
 import {renderContent} from "../Utils/SnoowrapUtils";
 import {ActionProcessResult, Footer, RequiredRichContent, RichContent} from "../Common/interfaces";
 import {RuleResult} from "../Rule";
+import {truncateStringToLength} from "../util";
 
 export class CommentAction extends Action {
     content: string;
@@ -50,25 +51,38 @@ export class CommentAction extends Action {
                 result: 'Cannot comment because Item is archived'
             };
         }
+        const touchedEntities = [];
         let reply: Comment;
         if(!dryRun) {
             // @ts-ignore
            reply = await item.reply(renderedContent);
+           touchedEntities.push(reply);
         }
         if (this.lock) {
             if (!dryRun) {
                 // snoopwrap typing issue, thinks comments can't be locked
                 // @ts-ignore
                 await item.lock();
+                touchedEntities.push(item);
             }
         }
         if (this.distinguish && !dryRun) {
             // @ts-ignore
             await reply.distinguish({sticky: this.sticky});
         }
+        let modifiers = [];
+        if(this.distinguish) {
+            modifiers.push('Distinguished');
+        }
+        if(this.sticky) {
+            modifiers.push('Stickied');
+        }
+        const modifierStr = modifiers.length === 0 ? '' : `[${modifiers.join(' | ')}]`;
         return {
             dryRun,
             success: true,
+            result: `${modifierStr}${this.lock ? ' - Locked Author\'s Activity - ' : ''}${truncateStringToLength(100)(body)}`,
+            touchedEntities,
         };
     }
 }

src/Action/LockAction.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export class LockAction extends Action {
 
     async process(item: Comment | Submission, ruleResults: RuleResult[], runtimeDryrun?: boolean): Promise<ActionProcessResult> {
         const dryRun = runtimeDryrun || this.dryRun;
+        const touchedEntities = [];
         //snoowrap typing issue, thinks comments can't be locked
         // @ts-ignore
         if (item.locked) {
@@ -25,10 +26,15 @@ export class LockAction extends Action {
             //snoowrap typing issue, thinks comments can't be locked
             // @ts-ignore
             await item.lock();
+            // @ts-ignore
+            item.locked = true;
+            await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item);
+            touchedEntities.push(item);
         }
         return {
             dryRun,
-            success: true
+            success: true,
+            touchedEntities
         }
     }
 }

src/Action/MessageAction.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,16 @@ import Submission from "snoowrap/dist/objects/Submission";
 import {renderContent} from "../Utils/SnoowrapUtils";
 import {ActionProcessResult, Footer, RequiredRichContent, RichContent} from "../Common/interfaces";
 import {RuleResult} from "../Rule";
-import {asSubmission, boolToString, isSubmission} from "../util";
+import {
+    asSubmission,
+    boolToString,
+    isSubmission,
+    parseRedditEntity,
+    REDDIT_ENTITY_REGEX_URL,
+    truncateStringToLength
+} from "../util";
+import {SimpleError} from "../Utils/Errors";
+import {ErrorWithCause} from "pony-cause";
 
 export class MessageAction extends Action {
     content: string;
@@ -14,6 +23,7 @@ export class MessageAction extends Action {
     footer?: false | string;
 
     title?: string;
+    to?: string;
     asSubreddit: boolean;
 
     constructor(options: MessageActionOptions) {
@@ -23,7 +33,9 @@ export class MessageAction extends Action {
             asSubreddit,
             title,
             footer,
+            to,
         } = options;
+        this.to = to;
         this.footer = footer;
         this.content = content;
         this.asSubreddit = asSubreddit;
@@ -42,11 +54,27 @@ export class MessageAction extends Action {
         const footer = await this.resources.generateFooter(item, this.footer);
 
         const renderedContent = `${body}${footer}`;
-        // @ts-ignore
-        const author = await item.author.fetch() as RedditUser;
+
+        let recipient = item.author.name;
+        if(this.to !== undefined) {
+            // parse to value
+            try {
+                const entityData = parseRedditEntity(this.to, 'user');
+                if(entityData.type === 'user') {
+                    recipient = entityData.name;
+                } else {
+                    recipient = `/r/${entityData.name}`;
+                }
+            } catch (err: any) {
+                throw new ErrorWithCause(`'to' field for message was not in a valid format. See ${REDDIT_ENTITY_REGEX_URL} for valid examples`, {cause: err});
+            }
+            if(recipient.includes('/r/') && this.asSubreddit) {
+                throw new SimpleError(`Cannot send a message as a subreddit to another subreddit. Requested recipient: ${recipient}`);
+            }
+        }
 
         const msgOpts: ComposeMessageParams = {
-            to: author,
+            to: recipient,
             text: renderedContent,
             // @ts-ignore
             fromSubreddit: this.asSubreddit ? await item.subreddit.fetch() : undefined,
@@ -54,7 +82,7 @@ export class MessageAction extends Action {
         };
 
         const msgPreview = `\r\n
-        TO: ${author.name}\r\n
+        TO: ${recipient}\r\n
         Subject: ${msgOpts.subject}\r\n
         Sent As Modmail: ${boolToString(this.asSubreddit)}\r\n\r\n
         ${renderedContent}`;
@@ -67,6 +95,7 @@ export class MessageAction extends Action {
         return {
             dryRun,
             success: true,
+            result: truncateStringToLength(200)(msgPreview)
         }
     }
 }
@@ -77,6 +106,24 @@ export interface MessageActionConfig extends RequiredRichContent, Footer {
      * */
     asSubreddit: boolean
 
+    /**
+     * Entity to send message to.
+     *
+     * If not present Message be will sent to the Author of the Activity being checked.
+     *
+     * Valid formats:
+     *
+     * * `aUserName` -- send to /u/aUserName
+     * * `u/aUserName` -- send to /u/aUserName
+     * * `r/aSubreddit` -- sent to modmail of /r/aSubreddit
+     *
+     * **Note:** Reddit does not support sending a message AS a subreddit TO another subreddit
+     *
+     * @pattern ^\s*(\/[ru]\/|[ru]\/)*(\w+)*\s*$
+     * @examples ["aUserName","u/aUserName","r/aSubreddit"]
+     * */
+    to?: string
+
     /**
      * The title of the message
      *

src/Action/RemoveAction.ts

@@ -1,45 +1,69 @@
-import {ActionJson, ActionConfig} from "./index";
+import {ActionJson, ActionConfig, ActionOptions} from "./index";
 import Action from "./index";
 import Snoowrap, {Comment, Submission} from "snoowrap";
 import {RuleResult} from "../Rule";
 import {activityIsRemoved} from "../Utils/SnoowrapUtils";
 import {ActionProcessResult} from "../Common/interfaces";
+import dayjs from "dayjs";
+import {isSubmission} from "../util";
 
 export class RemoveAction extends Action {
+    spam: boolean;
+
     getKind() {
         return 'Remove';
     }
 
+    constructor(options: RemoveOptions) {
+        super(options);
+        const {
+            spam = false,
+        } = options;
+        this.spam = spam;
+    }
+
     async process(item: Comment | Submission, ruleResults: RuleResult[], runtimeDryrun?: boolean): Promise<ActionProcessResult> {
         const dryRun = runtimeDryrun || this.dryRun;
+        const touchedEntities = [];
         // issue with snoowrap typings, doesn't think prop exists on Submission
         // @ts-ignore
         if (activityIsRemoved(item)) {
-            return {
-                dryRun,
-                success: false,
-                result: 'Item is already removed',
-            }
+            this.logger.warn('It looks like this Item is already removed!');
+        }
+        if (this.spam) {
+            this.logger.verbose('Marking as spam on removal');
         }
         if (!dryRun) {
             // @ts-ignore
-            await item.remove();
+            await item.remove({spam: this.spam});
+            item.banned_at_utc = dayjs().unix();
+            item.spam = this.spam;
+            if(!isSubmission(item)) {
+                // @ts-ignore
+                item.removed = true;
+            }
+            await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item);
+            touchedEntities.push(item);
         }
 
         return {
             dryRun,
             success: true,
+            touchedEntities
         }
     }
 }
 
-export interface RemoveActionConfig extends ActionConfig {
+export interface RemoveOptions extends RemoveActionConfig, ActionOptions {
+}
 
+export interface RemoveActionConfig extends ActionConfig {
+    spam?: boolean
 }
 
 /**
  * Remove the Activity
  * */
 export interface RemoveActionJson extends RemoveActionConfig, ActionJson {
-kind: 'remove'
+    kind: 'remove'
 }

src/Action/ReportAction.ts

@@ -29,14 +29,21 @@ export class ReportAction extends Action {
         const renderedContent = await renderContent(content, item, ruleResults, this.resources.userNotes);
         this.logger.verbose(`Contents:\r\n${renderedContent}`);
         const truncatedContent = reportTrunc(renderedContent);
+        const touchedEntities = [];
         if(!dryRun) {
             // @ts-ignore
             await item.report({reason: truncatedContent});
+            // due to reddit not updating this in response (maybe)?? just increment stale activity
+            item.num_reports++;
+            await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item);
+            touchedEntities.push(item);
         }
 
         return {
             dryRun,
-            success: true
+            success: true,
+            result: truncatedContent,
+            touchedEntities
         };
     }
 }

src/Action/SubmissionAction/FlairAction.ts

@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 import {SubmissionActionConfig} from "./index";
 import Action, {ActionJson, ActionOptions} from "../index";
-import Snoowrap, {Comment, Submission} from "snoowrap";
 import {RuleResult} from "../../Rule";
 import {ActionProcessResult} from "../../Common/interfaces";
+import Submission from 'snoowrap/dist/objects/Submission';
+import Comment from 'snoowrap/dist/objects/Comment';
 
 export class FlairAction extends Action {
     text: string;
     css: string;
+    flair_template_id: string;
 
     constructor(options: FlairActionOptions) {
         super(options);
-        if (options.text === undefined && options.css === undefined) {
-            throw new Error('Must define either text or css on FlairAction');
+        if (options.text === undefined && options.css === undefined && options.flair_template_id === undefined) {
+            throw new Error('Must define either text+css or flair_template_id on FlairAction');
         }
         this.text = options.text || '';
         this.css = options.css || '';
+        this.flair_template_id = options.flair_template_id || '';
     }
 
     getKind() {
@@ -23,10 +26,33 @@ export class FlairAction extends Action {
 
     async process(item: Comment | Submission, ruleResults: RuleResult[], runtimeDryrun?: boolean): Promise<ActionProcessResult> {
         const dryRun = runtimeDryrun || this.dryRun;
+        let flairParts = [];
+        if(this.text !== '') {
+            flairParts.push(`Text: ${this.text}`);
+        }
+        if(this.css !== '') {
+            flairParts.push(`CSS: ${this.css}`);
+        }
+        if(this.flair_template_id !== '') {
+            flairParts.push(`Template: ${this.flair_template_id}`);
+        }
+        const flairSummary = flairParts.length === 0 ? 'No flair (unflaired)' : flairParts.join(' | ');
+        this.logger.verbose(flairSummary);
         if (item instanceof Submission) {
             if(!this.dryRun) {
-                // @ts-ignore
-                await item.assignFlair({text: this.text, cssClass: this.css})
+                if (this.flair_template_id) {
+                    // typings are wrong for this function, flair_template_id should be accepted
+                    // assignFlair uses /api/flair (mod endpoint)
+                    // selectFlair uses /api/selectflair (self endpoint for user to choose their own flair for submission)
+                    // @ts-ignore
+                    await item.assignFlair({flair_template_id: this.flair_template_id}).then(() => {});
+                    item.link_flair_template_id = this.flair_template_id;
+                } else {
+                    await item.assignFlair({text: this.text, cssClass: this.css}).then(() => {});
+                    item.link_flair_css_class = this.css;
+                    item.link_flair_text = this.text;
+                }
+                await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item);
             }
         } else {
             this.logger.warn('Cannot flair Comment');
@@ -39,6 +65,7 @@ export class FlairAction extends Action {
         return {
             dryRun,
             success: true,
+            result: flairSummary
         }
     }
 }
@@ -50,12 +77,16 @@ export class FlairAction extends Action {
 export interface FlairActionConfig extends SubmissionActionConfig {
     /**
      * The text of the flair to apply
-    * */
+     * */
     text?: string,
     /**
      * The text of the css class of the flair to apply
      * */
     css?: string,
+    /**
+     * Flair template ID to assign
+     * */
+    flair_template_id?: string,
 }
 
 export interface FlairActionOptions extends FlairActionConfig,ActionOptions {
@@ -66,5 +97,5 @@ export interface FlairActionOptions extends FlairActionConfig,ActionOptions {
  * Flair the Submission
  * */
 export interface FlairActionJson extends FlairActionConfig, ActionJson {
-kind: 'flair'
+    kind: 'flair'
 }

src/Action/UserFlairAction.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+import Action, {ActionConfig, ActionJson, ActionOptions} from './index';
+import {Comment, RedditUser, Submission} from 'snoowrap';
+import {RuleResult} from '../Rule';
+import {ActionProcessResult} from '../Common/interfaces';
+
+export class UserFlairAction extends Action {
+  text?: string;
+  css?: string;
+  flair_template_id?: string;
+
+  constructor(options: UserFlairActionOptions) {
+    super(options);
+
+    this.text = options.text === null || options.text === '' ? undefined : options.text;
+    this.css = options.css === null || options.css === '' ? undefined : options.css;
+    this.flair_template_id = options.flair_template_id === null || options.flair_template_id === '' ? undefined : options.flair_template_id;
+  }
+
+  getKind() {
+    return 'User Flair';
+  }
+
+  async process(item: Comment | Submission, ruleResults: RuleResult[], runtimeDryrun?: boolean): Promise<ActionProcessResult> {
+    const dryRun = runtimeDryrun || this.dryRun;
+    let flairParts = [];
+
+    if (this.flair_template_id !== undefined) {
+      flairParts.push(`Flair template ID: ${this.flair_template_id}`)
+      if(this.text !== undefined || this.css !== undefined) {
+        this.logger.warn('Text/CSS properties will be ignored since a flair template is specified');
+      }
+    } else {
+      if (this.text !== undefined) {
+        flairParts.push(`Text: ${this.text}`);
+      }
+      if (this.css !== undefined) {
+        flairParts.push(`CSS: ${this.css}`);
+      }
+    }
+
+    const flairSummary = flairParts.length === 0 ? 'Unflair user' : flairParts.join(' | ');
+    this.logger.verbose(flairSummary);
+
+    if (!this.dryRun) {
+      if (this.flair_template_id !== undefined) {
+        try {
+          // @ts-ignore
+          await this.client.assignUserFlairByTemplateId({
+            subredditName: item.subreddit.display_name,
+            flairTemplateId: this.flair_template_id,
+            username: item.author.name,
+          });
+          item.author_flair_template_id = this.flair_template_id
+        } catch (err: any) {
+          this.logger.error('Either the flair template ID is incorrect or you do not have permission to access it.');
+          throw err;
+        }
+      } else if (this.text === undefined && this.css === undefined) {
+        // @ts-ignore
+        await item.subreddit.deleteUserFlair(item.author.name);
+        item.author_flair_css_class = null;
+        item.author_flair_text = null;
+        item.author_flair_template_id = null;
+      } else {
+        // @ts-ignore
+        await item.author.assignFlair({
+          subredditName: item.subreddit.display_name,
+          cssClass: this.css,
+          text: this.text,
+        });
+        item.author_flair_text = this.text ?? null;
+        item.author_flair_css_class = this.css ?? null;
+      }
+      await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item);
+      await this.resources.resetCacheForItem(item.author);
+    }
+
+    return {
+      dryRun,
+      success: true,
+      result: flairSummary,
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Flair the Author of an Activity
+ *
+ * Leave all properties blank or null to remove a User's existing flair
+ * */
+export interface UserFlairActionConfig extends ActionConfig {
+  /**
+   * The text of the flair to apply
+   * */
+  text?: string,
+  /**
+   * The text of the css class of the flair to apply
+   * */
+  css?: string,
+  /**
+   * Flair template to pick.
+   *
+   * **Note:** If this template is used text/css are ignored
+   * */
+  flair_template_id?: string;
+}
+
+export interface UserFlairActionOptions extends UserFlairActionConfig, ActionOptions {
+
+}
+
+/**
+ * Flair the Submission
+ * */
+export interface UserFlairActionJson extends UserFlairActionConfig, ActionJson {
+  kind: 'userflair'
+}

src/Action/UserNoteAction.ts

@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ export class UserNoteAction extends Action {
         }
         return {
             success: true,
-            dryRun
+            dryRun,
+            result: `(${this.type}) ${renderedContent}`
         }
     }
 }

src/Action/index.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,19 @@
-import Snoowrap, {Comment, Submission} from "snoowrap";
+import {Comment, Submission} from "snoowrap";
 import {Logger} from "winston";
 import {RuleResult} from "../Rule";
-import {SubredditResources} from "../Subreddit/SubredditResources";
+import {checkAuthorFilter, SubredditResources} from "../Subreddit/SubredditResources";
 import {ActionProcessResult, ActionResult, ChecksActivityState, TypedActivityStates} from "../Common/interfaces";
 import Author, {AuthorOptions} from "../Author/Author";
 import {mergeArr} from "../util";
 import LoggedError from "../Utils/LoggedError";
+import {ExtendedSnoowrap} from '../Utils/SnoowrapClients';
+import {ErrorWithCause} from "pony-cause";
 
 export abstract class Action {
     name?: string;
     logger: Logger;
     resources: SubredditResources;
-    client: Snoowrap
+    client: ExtendedSnoowrap;
     authorIs: AuthorOptions;
     itemIs: TypedActivityStates;
     dryRun: boolean;
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ export abstract class Action {
             subredditName,
             dryRun = false,
             authorIs: {
+                excludeCondition = 'OR',
                 include = [],
                 exclude = [],
             } = {},
@@ -41,6 +44,7 @@ export abstract class Action {
         this.logger = logger.child({labels: [`Action ${this.getActionUniqueName()}`]}, mergeArr);
 
         this.authorIs = {
+            excludeCondition,
             exclude: exclude.map(x => new Author(x)),
             include: include.map(x => new Author(x)),
         }
@@ -71,36 +75,20 @@ export abstract class Action {
                 actRes.runReason = `Activity did not pass 'itemIs' test, Action not run`;
                 return actRes;
             }
-            if (this.authorIs.include !== undefined && this.authorIs.include.length > 0) {
-                for (const auth of this.authorIs.include) {
-                    if (await this.resources.testAuthorCriteria(item, auth)) {
-                        actRes.run = true;
-                        const results = await this.process(item, ruleResults, runtimeDryrun);
-                        return {...actRes, ...results};
-                    }
-                }
-                this.logger.verbose('Inclusive author criteria not matched, Action not run');
-                actRes.runReason = 'Inclusive author criteria not matched';
-                return actRes;
-            } else if (this.authorIs.exclude !== undefined && this.authorIs.exclude.length > 0) {
-                for (const auth of this.authorIs.exclude) {
-                    if (await this.resources.testAuthorCriteria(item, auth, false)) {
-                        actRes.run = true;
-                        const results = await this.process(item, ruleResults, runtimeDryrun);
-                        return {...actRes, ...results};
-                    }
-                }
-                this.logger.verbose('Exclusive author criteria not matched, Action not run');
-                actRes.runReason = 'Exclusive author criteria not matched';
+            const [authFilterResult, authFilterType] = await checkAuthorFilter(item, this.authorIs, this.resources, this.logger);
+            if(!authFilterResult) {
+                this.logger.verbose(`${authFilterType} author criteria not matched, Action not run`);
+                actRes.runReason = `${authFilterType} author criteria not matched`;
                 return actRes;
             }
 
             actRes.run = true;
             const results = await this.process(item, ruleResults, runtimeDryrun);
             return {...actRes, ...results};
-        } catch (err) {
+        } catch (err: any) {
             if(!(err instanceof LoggedError)) {
-                this.logger.error(`Encountered error while running`, err);
+                const actionError = new ErrorWithCause('Action did not run successfully due to unexpected error', {cause: err});
+                this.logger.error(actionError);
             }
             actRes.success = false;
             actRes.result = err.message;
@@ -114,8 +102,8 @@ export abstract class Action {
 export interface ActionOptions extends ActionConfig {
     logger: Logger;
     subredditName: string;
-    resources: SubredditResources
-    client: Snoowrap
+    resources: SubredditResources;
+    client: ExtendedSnoowrap;
 }
 
 export interface ActionConfig extends ChecksActivityState {
@@ -162,7 +150,7 @@ export interface ActionJson extends ActionConfig {
     /**
      * The type of action that will be performed
      */
-    kind: 'comment' | 'lock' | 'remove' | 'report' | 'approve' | 'ban' | 'flair' | 'usernote' | 'message'
+    kind: 'comment' | 'lock' | 'remove' | 'report' | 'approve' | 'ban' | 'flair' | 'usernote' | 'message' | 'userflair'
 }
 
 export const isActionJson = (obj: object): obj is ActionJson => {

src/App.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import winston, {Logger} from "winston";
 import dayjs, {Dayjs} from "dayjs";
 import {getLogger} from "./Utils/loggerFactory";
-import {Invokee, OperatorConfig} from "./Common/interfaces";
+import {Invokee, OperatorConfig, OperatorConfigWithFileContext, OperatorFileConfig} from "./Common/interfaces";
 import Bot from "./Bot";
-import {castArray} from "lodash";
 import LoggedError from "./Utils/LoggedError";
+import {sleep} from "./util";
 
 export class App {
 
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ export class App {
 
     error: any;
 
-    constructor(config: OperatorConfig) {
+    config: OperatorConfig;
+    fileConfig: OperatorFileConfig;
+
+    constructor(config: OperatorConfigWithFileContext) {
         const {
             operator: {
                 name,
@@ -23,6 +26,11 @@ export class App {
             bots = [],
         } = config;
 
+        const {fileConfig, ...rest} = config;
+
+        this.config = rest;
+        this.fileConfig = fileConfig;
+
         this.logger = getLogger(config.logging);
 
         this.logger.info(`Operators: ${name.length === 0 ? 'None Specified' : name.join(', ')}`)
@@ -53,8 +61,11 @@ export class App {
     }
 
     async onTerminate(reason = 'The application was shutdown') {
-        for(const m of this.bots) {
-            //await m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Application Shutdown', reason);
+        for(const b of this.bots) {
+            for(const m of b.subManagers) {
+                await m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Application Shutdown', reason);
+            }
+            //await b.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Application Shutdown', reason);
         }
     }
 
@@ -64,13 +75,14 @@ export class App {
                 try {
                     await b.testClient();
                     await b.buildManagers();
+                    await sleep(2000);
                     b.runManagers(causedBy).catch((err) => {
                         this.logger.error(`Unexpected error occurred while running Bot ${b.botName}. Bot must be re-built to restart`);
                         if (!err.logged || !(err instanceof LoggedError)) {
                             this.logger.error(err);
                         }
                     });
-                } catch (err) {
+                } catch (err: any) {
                     if (b.error === undefined) {
                         b.error = err.message;
                     }

src/Author/Author.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-import {DurationComparor, UserNoteCriteria} from "../Rule";
-import {CompareValue, CompareValueOrPercent} from "../Common/interfaces";
+import {UserNoteCriteria} from "../Rule";
+import {CompareValue, CompareValueOrPercent, DurationComparor, JoinOperands} from "../Common/interfaces";
+import {parseStringToRegex} from "../util";
 
 /**
  * If present then these Author criteria are checked before running the rule. If criteria fails then the rule is skipped.
@@ -11,7 +12,17 @@ export interface AuthorOptions {
      * */
     include?: AuthorCriteria[];
     /**
-     * Only runs if `include` is not present. Will "pass" if any of set of the AuthorCriteria **does not** pass
+     * * OR => if ANY exclude condition "does not" pass then the exclude test passes
+     * * AND => if ALL exclude conditions "do not" pass then the exclude test passes
+     *
+     * Defaults to OR
+     * @default OR
+     * */
+    excludeCondition?: JoinOperands
+    /**
+     * Only runs if `include` is not present. Each AuthorCriteria is comprised of conditions that the Author being checked must "not" pass. See excludeCondition for set behavior
+     *
+     * EX: `isMod: true, name: Automoderator` => Will pass if the Author IS NOT a mod and IS NOT named Automoderator
      * */
     exclude?: AuthorCriteria[];
 }
@@ -35,15 +46,20 @@ export interface AuthorCriteria {
      * */
     name?: string[],
     /**
-     * A list of (user) flair css class values from the subreddit to match against
+     * A (user) flair css class (or list of) from the subreddit to match against
      * @examples ["red"]
      * */
-    flairCssClass?: string[],
+    flairCssClass?: string | string[],
     /**
-     * A list of (user) flair text values from the subreddit to match against
+     * A (user) flair text value (or list of) from the subreddit to match against
      * @examples ["Approved"]
      * */
-    flairText?: string[],
+    flairText?: string | string[],
+
+    /**
+     * A (user) flair template id (or list of) from the subreddit to match against
+     * */
+    flairTemplate?: string | string[]
     /**
      * Is the author a moderator?
      * */
@@ -99,6 +115,24 @@ export interface AuthorCriteria {
      * Does Author's account have a verified email?
      * */
     verified?: boolean
+
+    /**
+     * Is the author shadowbanned?
+     *
+     * This is determined by trying to retrieve the author's profile. If a 404 is returned it is likely they are shadowbanned
+     * */
+    shadowBanned?: boolean
+
+    /**
+     * An (array of) string/regular expression to test contents of an Author's profile description against
+     *
+     * If no flags are specified then the **insensitive** flag is used by default
+     *
+     * If using an array then if **any** value in the array passes the description test passes
+     *
+     * @examples [["/test$/i", "look for this string literal"]]
+     * */
+    description?: string | string[]
 }
 
 export class Author implements AuthorCriteria {
@@ -112,17 +146,25 @@ export class Author implements AuthorCriteria {
     linkKarma?: string;
     totalKarma?: string;
     verified?: boolean;
+    shadowBanned?: boolean;
+    description?: string[];
 
     constructor(options: AuthorCriteria) {
         this.name = options.name;
-        this.flairCssClass = options.flairCssClass;
-        this.flairText = options.flairText;
+        if(options.flairCssClass !== undefined) {
+            this.flairCssClass = typeof options.flairCssClass === 'string' ? [options.flairCssClass] : options.flairCssClass;
+        }
+        if(options.flairText !== undefined) {
+            this.flairText = typeof options.flairText === 'string' ? [options.flairText] : options.flairText;
+        }
         this.isMod = options.isMod;
         this.userNotes = options.userNotes;
         this.age = options.age;
         this.commentKarma = options.commentKarma;
         this.linkKarma = options.linkKarma;
         this.totalKarma = options.totalKarma;
+        this.shadowBanned = options.shadowBanned;
+        this.description = options.description === undefined ? undefined : Array.isArray(options.description) ? options.description : [options.description];
     }
 }
 

src/Bot/index.ts

@@ -1,51 +1,73 @@
-import Snoowrap, {Subreddit} from "snoowrap";
+import Snoowrap, {Comment, Submission, Subreddit} from "snoowrap";
 import {Logger} from "winston";
 import dayjs, {Dayjs} from "dayjs";
 import {Duration} from "dayjs/plugin/duration";
 import EventEmitter from "events";
-import {BotInstanceConfig, Invokee, PAUSED, RUNNING, SYSTEM} from "../Common/interfaces";
+import {
+    BotInstanceConfig,
+    FilterCriteriaDefaults,
+    Invokee, LogInfo,
+    PAUSED,
+    PollOn,
+    RUNNING,
+    STOPPED,
+    SYSTEM,
+    USER
+} from "../Common/interfaces";
 import {
     createRetryHandler,
-    formatNumber,
+    formatNumber, getExceptionMessage, getUserAgent,
     mergeArr,
     parseBool,
-    parseDuration,
-    parseSubredditName,
+    parseDuration, parseMatchMessage,
+    parseSubredditName, RetryOptions,
     sleep,
     snooLogWrapper
 } from "../util";
 import {Manager} from "../Subreddit/Manager";
-import {ProxiedSnoowrap} from "../Utils/SnoowrapClients";
-import {ModQueueStream, UnmoderatedStream} from "../Subreddit/Streams";
+import {ExtendedSnoowrap, ProxiedSnoowrap} from "../Utils/SnoowrapClients";
+import {CommentStream, ModQueueStream, SPoll, SubmissionStream, UnmoderatedStream} from "../Subreddit/Streams";
 import {BotResourcesManager} from "../Subreddit/SubredditResources";
 import LoggedError from "../Utils/LoggedError";
 import pEvent from "p-event";
+import {SimpleError, isRateLimitError, isRequestError, isScopeError, isStatusError, CMError} from "../Utils/Errors";
+import {ErrorWithCause} from "pony-cause";
 
 
 class Bot {
 
-    client!: Snoowrap;
+    client!: ExtendedSnoowrap;
     logger!: Logger;
+    logs: LogInfo[] = [];
     wikiLocation: string;
     dryRun?: true | undefined;
     running: boolean = false;
     subreddits: string[];
     excludeSubreddits: string[];
+    filterCriteriaDefaults?: FilterCriteriaDefaults
     subManagers: Manager[] = [];
     heartbeatInterval: number;
-    nextHeartbeat?: Dayjs;
+    nextHeartbeat: Dayjs = dayjs();
     heartBeating: boolean = false;
 
     softLimit: number | string = 250;
     hardLimit: number | string = 50;
     nannyMode?: 'soft' | 'hard';
+    nannyRunning: boolean = false;
+    nextNannyCheck: Dayjs = dayjs().add(10, 'second');
+    sharedStreamRetryHandler: Function;
+    nannyRetryHandler: Function;
+    managerRetryHandler: Function;
     nextExpiration: Dayjs = dayjs();
     botName?: string;
     botLink?: string;
     botAccount?: string;
     maxWorkers: number;
     startedAt: Dayjs = dayjs();
-    sharedModqueue: boolean = false;
+    sharedStreams: PollOn[] = [];
+    streamListedOnce: string[] = [];
+
+    stagger: number;
 
     apiSample: number[] = [];
     apiRollingAvg: number = 0;
@@ -69,6 +91,7 @@ class Bot {
         const {
             notifications,
             name,
+            filterCriteriaDefaults,
             subreddits: {
                 names = [],
                 exclude = [],
@@ -76,18 +99,22 @@ class Bot {
                 dryRun,
                 heartbeatInterval,
             },
+            userAgent,
             credentials: {
-                clientId,
-                clientSecret,
-                refreshToken,
-                accessToken,
+                reddit: {
+                    clientId,
+                    clientSecret,
+                    refreshToken,
+                    accessToken,
+                },
             },
             snoowrap: {
                 proxy,
                 debug,
             },
             polling: {
-                sharedMod,
+                shared = [],
+                stagger = 2000,
             },
             queue: {
                 maxWorkers,
@@ -111,7 +138,8 @@ class Bot {
         this.hardLimit = hardLimit;
         this.wikiLocation = wikiConfig;
         this.heartbeatInterval = heartbeatInterval;
-        this.sharedModqueue = sharedMod;
+        this.filterCriteriaDefaults = filterCriteriaDefaults;
+        this.sharedStreams = shared;
         if(name !== undefined) {
             this.botName = name;
         }
@@ -125,6 +153,12 @@ class Bot {
             }
         }, mergeArr);
 
+        this.logger.stream().on('log', (log: LogInfo) => {
+            if(log.bot !== undefined && log.bot === this.getBotName() && log.subreddit === undefined) {
+                this.logs = [log, ...this.logs].slice(0, 301);
+            }
+        });
+
         let mw = maxWorkers;
         if(maxWorkers < 1) {
             this.logger.warn(`Max queue workers must be greater than or equal to 1 (Specified: ${maxWorkers})`);
@@ -140,7 +174,9 @@ class Bot {
         this.excludeSubreddits = exclude.map(parseSubredditName);
 
         let creds: any = {
-            get userAgent() { return getUserName() },
+            get userAgent() {
+                return getUserAgent(`web:contextBot:{VERSION}{FRAG}:BOT-${getBotName()}`, userAgent)
+            },
             clientId,
             clientSecret,
             refreshToken,
@@ -163,46 +199,26 @@ class Bot {
         }
 
         try {
-            this.client = proxy === undefined ? new Snoowrap(creds) : new ProxiedSnoowrap({...creds, proxy});
+            this.client = proxy === undefined ? new ExtendedSnoowrap(creds) : new ProxiedSnoowrap({...creds, proxy});
             this.client.config({
                 warnings: true,
-                maxRetryAttempts: 5,
+                maxRetryAttempts: 2,
                 debug,
                 logger: snooLogWrapper(this.logger.child({labels: ['Snoowrap']}, mergeArr)),
-                continueAfterRatelimitError: true,
+                continueAfterRatelimitError: false,
             });
-        } catch (err) {
+        } catch (err: any) {
             if(this.error === undefined) {
                 this.error = err.message;
                 this.logger.error(err);
             }
         }
 
-        const retryHandler = createRetryHandler({maxRequestRetry: 8, maxOtherRetry: 1}, this.logger);
+        this.sharedStreamRetryHandler = createRetryHandler({maxRequestRetry: 8, maxOtherRetry: 2}, this.logger);
+        this.nannyRetryHandler = createRetryHandler({maxRequestRetry: 5, maxOtherRetry: 1}, this.logger);
+        this.managerRetryHandler = createRetryHandler({maxRequestRetry: 8, maxOtherRetry: 8, waitOnRetry: false, clearRetryCountAfter: 2}, this.logger);
 
-        const modStreamErrorListener = (name: string) => async (err: any) => {
-            this.logger.error('Polling error occurred', err);
-            const shouldRetry = await retryHandler(err);
-            if(shouldRetry) {
-                defaultUnmoderatedStream.startInterval();
-            } else {
-                for(const m of this.subManagers) {
-                    if(m.modStreamCallbacks.size > 0) {
-                        m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', `${name.toUpperCase()} Polling Stopped`, 'Encountered too many errors from Reddit while polling. Will try to restart on next heartbeat.');
-                    }
-                }
-                this.logger.error(`Mod stream ${name.toUpperCase()} encountered too many errors while polling. Will try to restart on next heartbeat.`);
-            }
-        }
-
-        const defaultUnmoderatedStream = new UnmoderatedStream(this.client, {subreddit: 'mod'});
-        // @ts-ignore
-        defaultUnmoderatedStream.on('error', modStreamErrorListener('unmoderated'));
-        const defaultModqueueStream = new ModQueueStream(this.client, {subreddit: 'mod'});
-        // @ts-ignore
-        defaultModqueueStream.on('error', modStreamErrorListener('modqueue'));
-        this.cacheManager.modStreams.set('unmoderated', defaultUnmoderatedStream);
-        this.cacheManager.modStreams.set('modqueue', defaultModqueueStream);
+        this.stagger = stagger ?? 2000;
 
         process.on('uncaughtException', (e) => {
             this.error = e;
@@ -227,33 +243,62 @@ class Bot {
         });
     }
 
+    createSharedStreamErrorListener = (name: string) => async (err: any) => {
+        const shouldRetry = await this.sharedStreamRetryHandler(err);
+        if(shouldRetry) {
+            (this.cacheManager.modStreams.get(name) as SPoll<any>).startInterval(false, 'Within retry limits');
+        } else {
+            for(const m of this.subManagers) {
+                if(m.sharedStreamCallbacks.size > 0) {
+                    m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', `${name.toUpperCase()} Polling Stopped`, 'Encountered too many errors from Reddit while polling. Will try to restart on next heartbeat.');
+                }
+            }
+            this.logger.error(`Mod stream ${name.toUpperCase()} encountered too many errors while polling. Will try to restart on next heartbeat.`);
+        }
+    }
+
+    createSharedStreamListingListener = (name: string) => async (listing: (Comment|Submission)[]) => {
+        // dole out in order they were received
+        if(!this.streamListedOnce.includes(name)) {
+            this.streamListedOnce.push(name);
+            return;
+        }
+        for(const i of listing) {
+            const foundManager = this.subManagers.find(x => x.subreddit.display_name === i.subreddit.display_name && x.sharedStreamCallbacks.get(name) !== undefined && x.eventsState.state === RUNNING);
+            if(foundManager !== undefined) {
+                foundManager.sharedStreamCallbacks.get(name)(i);
+                if(this.stagger !== undefined) {
+                    await sleep(this.stagger);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     async onTerminate(reason = 'The application was shutdown') {
         for(const m of this.subManagers) {
             await m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Application Shutdown', reason);
         }
     }
 
-    async testClient() {
+    async testClient(initial = true) {
         try {
             // @ts-ignore
             await this.client.getMe();
             this.logger.info('Test API call successful');
-        } catch (err) {
-            this.logger.error('An error occurred while trying to initialize the Reddit API Client which would prevent the entire application from running.');
-            if(err.name === 'StatusCodeError') {
-                const authHeader = err.response.headers['www-authenticate'];
-                if (authHeader !== undefined && authHeader.includes('insufficient_scope')) {
-                    this.logger.error('Reddit responded with a 403 insufficient_scope. Please ensure you have chosen the correct scopes when authorizing your account.');
-                } else if(err.statusCode === 401) {
-                    this.logger.error('It is likely a credential is missing or incorrect. Check clientId, clientSecret, refreshToken, and accessToken');
-                }
-                this.logger.error(`Error Message: ${err.message}`);
-            } else {
-                this.logger.error(err);
+        } catch (err: any) {
+            if (initial) {
+                this.logger.error('An error occurred while trying to initialize the Reddit API Client which would prevent the entire application from running.');
             }
-            this.error = `Error occurred while testing Reddit API client: ${err.message}`;
-            err.logged = true;
-            throw err;
+            const hint = getExceptionMessage(err, {
+                401: 'Likely a credential is missing or incorrect. Check clientId, clientSecret, refreshToken, and accessToken',
+                400: 'Credentials may have been invalidated manually or by reddit due to behavior',
+            });
+            let msg = `Error occurred while testing Reddit API client${hint !== undefined ? `: ${hint}` : ''}`;
+            this.error = msg;
+            const clientError = new CMError(msg, {cause: err});
+            clientError.logged = true;
+            this.logger.error(clientError);
+            throw clientError;
         }
     }
 
@@ -272,10 +317,12 @@ class Bot {
         }
         this.logger.info(`Bot Name${botNameFromConfig ? ' (from config)' : ''}: ${this.botName}`);
 
-        for (const sub of await this.client.getModeratedSubreddits()) {
-            // TODO don't know a way to check permissions yet
-            availSubs.push(sub);
+        let subListing = await this.client.getModeratedSubreddits({count: 100});
+        while(!subListing.isFinished) {
+            subListing = await subListing.fetchMore({amount: 100});
         }
+        availSubs = subListing.filter(x => x.display_name !== `u_${user.name}`);
+
         this.logger.info(`u/${user.name} is a moderator of these subreddits: ${availSubs.map(x => x.display_name_prefixed).join(', ')}`);
 
         let subsToRun: Subreddit[] = [];
@@ -294,35 +341,182 @@ class Bot {
             }
         } else {
             if(this.excludeSubreddits.length > 0) {
-                this.logger.info(`Will run on all moderated subreddits but user-defined excluded: ${this.excludeSubreddits.join(', ')}`);
+                this.logger.info(`Will run on all moderated subreddits but own profile and user-defined excluded: ${this.excludeSubreddits.join(', ')}`);
                 const normalExcludes = this.excludeSubreddits.map(x => x.toLowerCase());
                 subsToRun = availSubs.filter(x => !normalExcludes.includes(x.display_name.toLowerCase()));
             } else {
-                this.logger.info('No user-defined subreddit constraints detected, will run on all moderated subreddits');
+                this.logger.info(`No user-defined subreddit constraints detected, will run on all moderated subreddits EXCEPT own profile (${this.botAccount})`);
                 subsToRun = availSubs;
             }
         }
 
-        let subSchedule: Manager[] = [];
         // get configs for subs we want to run on and build/validate them
         for (const sub of subsToRun) {
-            const manager = new Manager(sub, this.client, this.logger, this.cacheManager, {dryRun: this.dryRun, sharedModqueue: this.sharedModqueue, wikiLocation: this.wikiLocation, botName: this.botName, maxWorkers: this.maxWorkers});
             try {
-                await manager.parseConfiguration('system', true, {suppressNotification: true});
-            } catch (err) {
-                if (!(err instanceof LoggedError)) {
-                    this.logger.error(`Config was not valid:`, {subreddit: sub.display_name_prefixed});
-                    this.logger.error(err, {subreddit: sub.display_name_prefixed});
-                }
+                this.subManagers.push(this.createManager(sub));
+            } catch (err: any) {
+
+            }
+        }
+        for(const m of this.subManagers) {
+            try {
+                await this.initManager(m);
+            } catch (err: any) {
+
+            }
+        }
+
+        this.parseSharedStreams();
+    }
+
+    parseSharedStreams() {
+
+        const sharedCommentsSubreddits = !this.sharedStreams.includes('newComm') ? [] : this.subManagers.filter(x => x.isPollingShared('newComm')).map(x => x.subreddit.display_name);
+        if (sharedCommentsSubreddits.length > 0) {
+            const stream = this.cacheManager.modStreams.get('newComm');
+            if (stream === undefined || stream.subreddit !== sharedCommentsSubreddits.join('+')) {
+                let processed;
+                if (stream !== undefined) {
+                    this.logger.info('Restarting SHARED COMMENT STREAM due to a subreddit config change');
+                    stream.end('Replacing with a new stream with updated subreddits');
+                    processed = stream.processed;
+                }
+                if (sharedCommentsSubreddits.length > 100) {
+                    this.logger.warn(`SHARED COMMENT STREAM => Reddit can only combine 100 subreddits for getting new Comments but this bot has ${sharedCommentsSubreddits.length}`);
+                }
+                const defaultCommentStream = new CommentStream(this.client, {
+                    subreddit: sharedCommentsSubreddits.join('+'),
+                    limit: 100,
+                    enforceContinuity: true,
+                    logger: this.logger,
+                    processed,
+                    label: 'Shared Polling'
+                });
+                // @ts-ignore
+                defaultCommentStream.on('error', this.createSharedStreamErrorListener('newComm'));
+                defaultCommentStream.on('listing', this.createSharedStreamListingListener('newComm'));
+                this.cacheManager.modStreams.set('newComm', defaultCommentStream);
+            }
+        } else {
+            const stream = this.cacheManager.modStreams.get('newComm');
+            if (stream !== undefined) {
+                stream.end('Determined no managers are listening on shared stream parsing');
+            }
+        }
+
+        const sharedSubmissionsSubreddits = !this.sharedStreams.includes('newSub') ? [] : this.subManagers.filter(x => x.isPollingShared('newSub')).map(x => x.subreddit.display_name);
+        if (sharedSubmissionsSubreddits.length > 0) {
+            const stream = this.cacheManager.modStreams.get('newSub');
+            if (stream === undefined || stream.subreddit !== sharedSubmissionsSubreddits.join('+')) {
+                let processed;
+                if (stream !== undefined) {
+                    this.logger.info('Restarting SHARED SUBMISSION STREAM due to a subreddit config change');
+                    stream.end('Replacing with a new stream with updated subreddits');
+                    processed = stream.processed;
+                }
+                if (sharedSubmissionsSubreddits.length > 100) {
+                    this.logger.warn(`SHARED SUBMISSION STREAM => Reddit can only combine 100 subreddits for getting new Submissions but this bot has ${sharedSubmissionsSubreddits.length}`);
+                }
+                const defaultSubStream = new SubmissionStream(this.client, {
+                    subreddit: sharedSubmissionsSubreddits.join('+'),
+                    limit: 100,
+                    enforceContinuity: true,
+                    logger: this.logger,
+                    processed,
+                    label: 'Shared Polling'
+                });
+                // @ts-ignore
+                defaultSubStream.on('error', this.createSharedStreamErrorListener('newSub'));
+                defaultSubStream.on('listing', this.createSharedStreamListingListener('newSub'));
+                this.cacheManager.modStreams.set('newSub', defaultSubStream);
+            }
+        } else {
+            const stream = this.cacheManager.modStreams.get('newSub');
+            if (stream !== undefined) {
+                stream.end('Determined no managers are listening on shared stream parsing');
+            }
+        }
+
+        const isUnmoderatedShared = !this.sharedStreams.includes('unmoderated') ? false : this.subManagers.some(x => x.isPollingShared('unmoderated'));
+        const unmoderatedstream = this.cacheManager.modStreams.get('unmoderated');
+        if (isUnmoderatedShared && unmoderatedstream === undefined) {
+            const defaultUnmoderatedStream = new UnmoderatedStream(this.client, {
+                subreddit: 'mod',
+                limit: 100,
+                logger: this.logger,
+                label: 'Shared Polling'
+            });
+            // @ts-ignore
+            defaultUnmoderatedStream.on('error', this.createSharedStreamErrorListener('unmoderated'));
+            defaultUnmoderatedStream.on('listing', this.createSharedStreamListingListener('unmoderated'));
+            this.cacheManager.modStreams.set('unmoderated', defaultUnmoderatedStream);
+        } else if (!isUnmoderatedShared && unmoderatedstream !== undefined) {
+            unmoderatedstream.end('Determined no managers are listening on shared stream parsing');
+        }
+
+        const isModqueueShared = !this.sharedStreams.includes('modqueue') ? false : this.subManagers.some(x => x.isPollingShared('modqueue'));
+        const modqueuestream = this.cacheManager.modStreams.get('modqueue');
+        if (isModqueueShared && modqueuestream === undefined) {
+            const defaultModqueueStream = new ModQueueStream(this.client, {
+                subreddit: 'mod',
+                limit: 100,
+                logger: this.logger,
+                label: 'Shared Polling'
+            });
+            // @ts-ignore
+            defaultModqueueStream.on('error', this.createSharedStreamErrorListener('modqueue'));
+            defaultModqueueStream.on('listing', this.createSharedStreamListingListener('modqueue'));
+            this.cacheManager.modStreams.set('modqueue', defaultModqueueStream);
+        } else if (isModqueueShared && modqueuestream !== undefined) {
+            modqueuestream.end('Determined no managers are listening on shared stream parsing');
+        }
+    }
+
+    async initManager(manager: Manager) {
+        try {
+            await manager.parseConfiguration('system', true, {suppressNotification: true, suppressChangeEvent: true});
+        } catch (err: any) {
+            if(err.logged !== true) {
+                const normalizedError = new ErrorWithCause(`Bot could not start manager because config was not valid`, {cause: err});
+                // @ts-ignore
+                this.logger.error(normalizedError, {subreddit: manager.subreddit.display_name_prefixed});
+            } else {
+                this.logger.error('Bot could not start manager because config was not valid', {subreddit: manager.subreddit.display_name_prefixed});
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    createManager(sub: Subreddit): Manager {
+        const manager = new Manager(sub, this.client, this.logger, this.cacheManager, {
+            dryRun: this.dryRun,
+            sharedStreams: this.sharedStreams,
+            wikiLocation: this.wikiLocation,
+            botName: this.botName as string,
+            maxWorkers: this.maxWorkers,
+            filterCriteriaDefaults: this.filterCriteriaDefaults,
+        });
+        // all errors from managers will count towards bot-level retry count
+        manager.on('error', async (err) => await this.panicOnRetries(err));
+        manager.on('configChange', async () => {
+           this.parseSharedStreams();
+           await this.runSharedStreams(false);
+        });
+        return manager;
+    }
+
+    // if the cumulative errors exceeds configured threshold then stop ALL managers as there is most likely something very bad happening
+    async panicOnRetries(err: any) {
+        if(!await this.managerRetryHandler(err)) {
+            this.logger.warn('Bot detected too many errors from managers within a short time. Stopping all managers and will try to restart on next heartbeat.');
+            for(const m of this.subManagers) {
+                await m.stop('system',{reason: 'Bot detected too many errors from all managers. Stopping all manager as a failsafe.'});
             }
-            subSchedule.push(manager);
         }
-        this.subManagers = subSchedule;
     }
 
     async destroy(causedBy: Invokee) {
         this.logger.info('Stopping heartbeat and nanny processes, may take up to 5 seconds...');
-        const processWait = Promise.all([pEvent(this.emitter, 'heartbeatStopped'), pEvent(this.emitter, 'nannyStopped')]);
+        const processWait = pEvent(this.emitter, 'healthStopped');
         this.running = false;
         await processWait;
         for (const manager of this.subManagers) {
@@ -331,23 +525,61 @@ class Bot {
         this.logger.info('Bot is stopped.');
     }
 
-    async runModStreams(notify = false) {
-        for(const [k,v] of this.cacheManager.modStreams) {
-            if(!v.running && v.listeners('item').length > 0) {
-                v.startInterval();
-                this.logger.info(`Starting default ${k.toUpperCase()} mod stream`);
-                if(notify) {
-                    for(const m of this.subManagers) {
-                        if(m.modStreamCallbacks.size > 0) {
-                            await m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', `${k.toUpperCase()} Polling Started`, 'Polling was successfully restarted on heartbeat.');
-                        }
+    async checkModInvites() {
+        const subs: string[] = await this.cacheManager.getPendingSubredditInvites();
+        for (const name of subs) {
+            try {
+                // @ts-ignore
+                await this.client.getSubreddit(name).acceptModeratorInvite();
+                this.logger.info(`Accepted moderator invite for r/${name}!`);
+                await this.cacheManager.deletePendingSubredditInvite(name);
+                // @ts-ignore
+                const sub = await this.client.getSubreddit(name);
+                this.logger.info(`Attempting to add manager for r/${name}`);
+                try {
+                    const manager = this.createManager(sub);
+                    this.logger.info(`Starting manager for r/${name}`);
+                    this.subManagers.push(manager);
+                    await this.initManager(manager);
+                    await manager.start('system', {reason: 'Caused by creation due to moderator invite'});
+                    await this.runSharedStreams();
+                } catch (err: any) {
+                    if (!(err instanceof LoggedError)) {
+                        this.logger.error(err);
                     }
                 }
+            } catch (err: any) {
+                if (err.message.includes('NO_INVITE_FOUND')) {
+                    this.logger.warn(`No pending moderation invite for r/${name} was found`);
+                } else if (isStatusError(err) && err.statusCode === 403) {
+                    this.logger.error(`Error occurred while checking r/${name} for a pending moderation invite. It is likely that this bot does not have the 'modself' oauth permission. Error: ${err.message}`);
+                } else {
+                    this.logger.error(`Error occurred while checking r/${name} for a pending moderation invite. Error: ${err.message}`);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    async runSharedStreams(notify = false) {
+        for(const [k,v] of this.cacheManager.modStreams) {
+            if(!v.running && this.subManagers.some(x => x.sharedStreamCallbacks.get(k) !== undefined)) {
+                v.startInterval();
+                this.logger.info(`Starting ${k.toUpperCase()} shared polling`);
+                if(notify) {
+                    for(const m of this.subManagers) {
+                        if(m.sharedStreamCallbacks.size > 0) {
+                            await m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', `${k.toUpperCase()} Polling Started`, 'Polling was successfully restarted on heartbeat.');
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                await sleep(2000);
             }
         }
     }
 
     async runManagers(causedBy: Invokee = 'system') {
+        this.running = true;
+
         if(this.subManagers.every(x => !x.validConfigLoaded)) {
             this.logger.warn('All managers have invalid configs!');
             this.error = 'All managers have invalid configs';
@@ -355,150 +587,247 @@ class Bot {
         for (const manager of this.subManagers) {
             if (manager.validConfigLoaded && manager.botState.state !== RUNNING) {
                 await manager.start(causedBy, {reason: 'Caused by application startup'});
+                await sleep(this.stagger);
             }
         }
 
-        await this.runModStreams();
+        await this.runSharedStreams();
 
-        this.running = true;
-        this.runApiNanny();
+        this.nextNannyCheck = dayjs().add(10, 'second');
+        this.nextHeartbeat = dayjs().add(this.heartbeatInterval, 'second');
+        await this.checkModInvites();
+        await this.healthLoop();
+    }
+
+    async healthLoop() {
+        while (this.running) {
+            await sleep(5000);
+            if (!this.running) {
+                break;
+            }
+            if (dayjs().isSameOrAfter(this.nextNannyCheck)) {
+                try {
+                    await this.runApiNanny();
+                    this.nextNannyCheck = dayjs().add(10, 'second');
+                } catch (err: any) {
+                    this.logger.info('Delaying next nanny check for 4 minutes due to emitted error');
+                    this.nextNannyCheck = dayjs().add(240, 'second');
+                }
+            }
+            if(dayjs().isSameOrAfter(this.nextHeartbeat)) {
+                try {
+                    await this.heartbeat();
+                    await this.checkModInvites();
+                } catch (err: any) {
+                    this.logger.error(`Error occurred during heartbeat check: ${err.message}`);
+                }
+                this.nextHeartbeat = dayjs().add(this.heartbeatInterval, 'second');
+            }
+        }
+        this.emitter.emit('healthStopped');
+    }
+
+    async heartbeat() {
+        const heartbeat = `HEARTBEAT -- API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining} | Usage Rolling Avg: ~${formatNumber(this.apiRollingAvg)}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion === undefined ? 'N/A' : this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`
+        this.logger.info(heartbeat);
+
+        // run sanity check to see if there is a service issue
+        try {
+            await this.testClient(false);
+        } catch (err: any) {
+            throw new SimpleError(`Something isn't right! This could be a Reddit API issue (service is down? buggy??) or an issue with the Bot account. Will not run heartbeat operations and will wait until next heartbeat (${dayjs.duration(this.nextHeartbeat.diff(dayjs())).humanize()}) to try again`);
+        }
+        let startedAny = false;
+
+        for (const s of this.subManagers) {
+            if(s.botState.state === STOPPED && s.botState.causedBy === USER) {
+                this.logger.debug('Skipping config check/restart on heartbeat due to previously being stopped by user', {subreddit: s.displayLabel});
+                continue;
+            }
+            try {
+                // ensure calls to wiki page are also staggered so we aren't hitting api hard when bot has a ton of subreddits to check
+                await sleep(this.stagger);
+                const newConfig = await s.parseConfiguration();
+                const willStart = newConfig || (s.queueState.state !== RUNNING && s.queueState.causedBy === SYSTEM) || (s.eventsState.state !== RUNNING && s.eventsState.causedBy === SYSTEM);
+                if(willStart) {
+                    // stagger restart
+                    if (startedAny) {
+                        await sleep(this.stagger);
+                    }
+                    startedAny = true;
+                    if(newConfig || (s.queueState.state !== RUNNING && s.queueState.causedBy === SYSTEM))
+                    {
+                        await s.startQueue('system', {reason: newConfig ? 'Config updated on heartbeat triggered reload' : 'Heartbeat detected non-running queue'});
+                    }
+                    if(newConfig || (s.eventsState.state !== RUNNING && s.eventsState.causedBy === SYSTEM))
+                    {
+                        await s.startEvents('system', {reason: newConfig ? 'Config updated on heartbeat triggered reload' : 'Heartbeat detected non-running events'});
+                    }
+                }
+                if(s.botState.state !== RUNNING && s.eventsState.state === RUNNING && s.queueState.state === RUNNING) {
+                    s.botState = {
+                        state: RUNNING,
+                        causedBy: 'system',
+                    }
+                }
+            } catch (err: any) {
+                if(s.eventsState.state === RUNNING) {
+                    this.logger.info('Stopping event polling to prevent activity processing queue from backing up. Will be restarted when config update succeeds.')
+                    await s.stopEvents('system', {reason: 'Invalid config will cause events to pile up in queue. Will be restarted when config update succeeds (next heartbeat).'});
+                }
+                if(err.logged !== true) {
+                    this.logger.error(err, {subreddit: s.displayLabel});
+                }
+                if(this.nextHeartbeat !== undefined) {
+                    this.logger.info(`Will retry parsing config on next heartbeat (in ${dayjs.duration(this.nextHeartbeat.diff(dayjs())).humanize()})`, {subreddit: s.displayLabel});
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        await this.runSharedStreams(true);
     }
 
     async runApiNanny() {
         try {
-            mainLoop:
-                while (this.running) {
-                    for(let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
-                        await sleep(5000);
-                        if (!this.running) {
-                            break mainLoop;
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    this.nextExpiration = dayjs(this.client.ratelimitExpiration);
-                    const nowish = dayjs().add(10, 'second');
-                    if (nowish.isAfter(this.nextExpiration)) {
-                        // it's possible no api calls are being made because of a hard limit
-                        // need to make an api call to update this
+            this.nextExpiration = dayjs(this.client.ratelimitExpiration);
+            const nowish = dayjs().add(10, 'second');
+            if (nowish.isAfter(this.nextExpiration)) {
+                // it's possible no api calls are being made because of a hard limit
+                // need to make an api call to update this
+                let shouldRetry = true;
+                while (shouldRetry) {
+                    try {
                         // @ts-ignore
                         await this.client.getMe();
-                        this.nextExpiration = dayjs(this.client.ratelimitExpiration);
-                    }
-                    const rollingSample = this.apiSample.slice(0, 7)
-                    rollingSample.unshift(this.client.ratelimitRemaining);
-                    this.apiSample = rollingSample;
-                    const diff = this.apiSample.reduceRight((acc: number[], curr, index) => {
-                        if (this.apiSample[index + 1] !== undefined) {
-                            const d = Math.abs(curr - this.apiSample[index + 1]);
-                            if (d === 0) {
-                                return [...acc, 0];
-                            }
-                            return [...acc, d / 10];
+                        shouldRetry = false;
+                    } catch (err: any) {
+                        if(isRateLimitError(err)) {
+                            throw err;
                         }
-                        return acc;
-                    }, []);
-                    this.apiRollingAvg = diff.reduce((acc, curr) => acc + curr, 0) / diff.length; // api requests per second
-                    this.depletedInSecs = this.client.ratelimitRemaining / this.apiRollingAvg; // number of seconds until current remaining limit is 0
-                    this.apiEstDepletion = dayjs.duration({seconds: this.depletedInSecs});
-                    this.logger.debug(`API Usage Rolling Avg: ${formatNumber(this.apiRollingAvg)}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`);
-
-
-                    let hardLimitHit = false;
-                    if (typeof this.hardLimit === 'string') {
-                        const hardDur = parseDuration(this.hardLimit);
-                        hardLimitHit = hardDur.asSeconds() > this.apiEstDepletion.asSeconds();
-                    } else {
-                        hardLimitHit = this.hardLimit > this.client.ratelimitRemaining;
-                    }
-
-                    if (hardLimitHit) {
-                        if (this.nannyMode === 'hard') {
-                            continue;
+                        shouldRetry = await this.nannyRetryHandler(err);
+                        if (!shouldRetry) {
+                            throw err;
                         }
-                        this.logger.info(`Detected HARD LIMIT of ${this.hardLimit} remaining`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                        this.logger.info(`API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining} | Usage Rolling Avg: ${this.apiRollingAvg}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                        this.logger.info(`All subreddit event polling has been paused`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-
-                        for (const m of this.subManagers) {
-                            m.pauseEvents('system');
-                            m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Hard Limit Triggered', `Hard Limit of ${this.hardLimit} hit (API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining}). Subreddit event polling has been paused.`, 'system', 'warn');
-                        }
-
-                        this.nannyMode = 'hard';
-                        continue;
-                    }
-
-                    let softLimitHit = false;
-                    if (typeof this.softLimit === 'string') {
-                        const softDur = parseDuration(this.softLimit);
-                        softLimitHit = softDur.asSeconds() > this.apiEstDepletion.asSeconds();
-                    } else {
-                        softLimitHit = this.softLimit > this.client.ratelimitRemaining;
-                    }
-
-                    if (softLimitHit) {
-                        if (this.nannyMode === 'soft') {
-                            continue;
-                        }
-                        this.logger.info(`Detected SOFT LIMIT of ${this.softLimit} remaining`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                        this.logger.info(`API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining} | Usage Rolling Avg: ${formatNumber(this.apiRollingAvg)}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                        this.logger.info('Trying to detect heavy usage subreddits...', {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                        let threshold = 0.5;
-                        let offenders = this.subManagers.filter(x => {
-                            const combinedPerSec = x.eventsRollingAvg + x.rulesUniqueRollingAvg;
-                            return combinedPerSec > threshold;
-                        });
-                        if (offenders.length === 0) {
-                            threshold = 0.25;
-                            // reduce threshold
-                            offenders = this.subManagers.filter(x => {
-                                const combinedPerSec = x.eventsRollingAvg + x.rulesUniqueRollingAvg;
-                                return combinedPerSec > threshold;
-                            });
-                        }
-
-                        if (offenders.length > 0) {
-                            this.logger.info(`Slowing subreddits using >- ${threshold}req/s:`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                            for (const m of offenders) {
-                                m.delayBy = 1.5;
-                                m.logger.info(`SLOW MODE (Currently ~${formatNumber(m.eventsRollingAvg + m.rulesUniqueRollingAvg)}req/sec)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                                m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Soft Limit Triggered', `Soft Limit of ${this.softLimit} hit (API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining}). Subreddit queue processing will be slowed to 1.5 seconds per.`, 'system', 'warn');
-                            }
-                        } else {
-                            this.logger.info(`Couldn't detect specific offenders, slowing all...`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                            for (const m of this.subManagers) {
-                                m.delayBy = 1.5;
-                                m.logger.info(`SLOW MODE (Currently ~${formatNumber(m.eventsRollingAvg + m.rulesUniqueRollingAvg)}req/sec)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                                m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Soft Limit Triggered', `Soft Limit of ${this.softLimit} hit (API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining}). Subreddit queue processing will be slowed to 1.5 seconds per.`, 'system', 'warn');
-                            }
-                        }
-                        this.nannyMode = 'soft';
-                        continue;
-                    }
-
-                    if (this.nannyMode !== undefined) {
-                        this.logger.info('Turning off due to better conditions...', {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
-                        for (const m of this.subManagers) {
-                            if (m.delayBy !== undefined) {
-                                m.delayBy = undefined;
-                                m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Normal Processing Resumed', 'Slow Mode has been turned off due to better API conditions', 'system');
-                            }
-                            if (m.queueState.state === PAUSED && m.queueState.causedBy === SYSTEM) {
-                                m.startQueue('system', {reason: 'API Nanny has been turned off due to better API conditions'});
-                            }
-                            if (m.eventsState.state === PAUSED && m.eventsState.causedBy === SYSTEM) {
-                                await m.startEvents('system', {reason: 'API Nanny has been turned off due to better API conditions'});
-                            }
-                        }
-                        this.nannyMode = undefined;
                     }
                 }
-        } catch (err) {
-            this.logger.error('Error occurred during nanny loop', err);
+                this.nextExpiration = dayjs(this.client.ratelimitExpiration);
+            }
+            const rollingSample = this.apiSample.slice(0, 7)
+            rollingSample.unshift(this.client.ratelimitRemaining);
+            this.apiSample = rollingSample;
+            const diff = this.apiSample.reduceRight((acc: number[], curr, index) => {
+                if (this.apiSample[index + 1] !== undefined) {
+                    const d = Math.abs(curr - this.apiSample[index + 1]);
+                    if (d === 0) {
+                        return [...acc, 0];
+                    }
+                    return [...acc, d / 10];
+                }
+                return acc;
+            }, []);
+            this.apiRollingAvg = diff.reduce((acc, curr) => acc + curr, 0) / diff.length; // api requests per second
+            this.depletedInSecs = this.client.ratelimitRemaining / this.apiRollingAvg; // number of seconds until current remaining limit is 0
+            this.apiEstDepletion = dayjs.duration({seconds: this.depletedInSecs});
+            this.logger.debug(`API Usage Rolling Avg: ${formatNumber(this.apiRollingAvg)}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`);
+
+
+            let hardLimitHit = false;
+            if (typeof this.hardLimit === 'string') {
+                const hardDur = parseDuration(this.hardLimit);
+                hardLimitHit = hardDur.asSeconds() > this.apiEstDepletion.asSeconds();
+            } else {
+                hardLimitHit = this.hardLimit > this.client.ratelimitRemaining;
+            }
+
+            if (hardLimitHit) {
+                if (this.nannyMode === 'hard') {
+                    return;
+                }
+                this.logger.info(`Detected HARD LIMIT of ${this.hardLimit} remaining`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                this.logger.info(`API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining} | Usage Rolling Avg: ${this.apiRollingAvg}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                this.logger.info(`All subreddit event polling has been paused`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+
+                for (const m of this.subManagers) {
+                    m.pauseEvents('system');
+                    m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Hard Limit Triggered', `Hard Limit of ${this.hardLimit} hit (API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining}). Subreddit event polling has been paused.`, 'system', 'warn');
+                }
+
+                for(const [k,v] of this.cacheManager.modStreams) {
+                    v.end('Hard limit cutoff');
+                }
+
+                this.nannyMode = 'hard';
+                return;
+            }
+
+            let softLimitHit = false;
+            if (typeof this.softLimit === 'string') {
+                const softDur = parseDuration(this.softLimit);
+                softLimitHit = softDur.asSeconds() > this.apiEstDepletion.asSeconds();
+            } else {
+                softLimitHit = this.softLimit > this.client.ratelimitRemaining;
+            }
+
+            if (softLimitHit) {
+                if (this.nannyMode === 'soft') {
+                    return;
+                }
+                this.logger.info(`Detected SOFT LIMIT of ${this.softLimit} remaining`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                this.logger.info(`API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining} | Usage Rolling Avg: ${formatNumber(this.apiRollingAvg)}/s | Est Depletion: ${this.apiEstDepletion.humanize()} (${formatNumber(this.depletedInSecs, {toFixed: 0})} seconds)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                this.logger.info('Trying to detect heavy usage subreddits...', {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                let threshold = 0.5;
+                let offenders = this.subManagers.filter(x => {
+                    const combinedPerSec = x.eventsRollingAvg + x.rulesUniqueRollingAvg;
+                    return combinedPerSec > threshold;
+                });
+                if (offenders.length === 0) {
+                    threshold = 0.25;
+                    // reduce threshold
+                    offenders = this.subManagers.filter(x => {
+                        const combinedPerSec = x.eventsRollingAvg + x.rulesUniqueRollingAvg;
+                        return combinedPerSec > threshold;
+                    });
+                }
+
+                if (offenders.length > 0) {
+                    this.logger.info(`Slowing subreddits using >- ${threshold}req/s:`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                    for (const m of offenders) {
+                        m.delayBy = 1.5;
+                        m.logger.info(`SLOW MODE (Currently ~${formatNumber(m.eventsRollingAvg + m.rulesUniqueRollingAvg)}req/sec)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                        m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Soft Limit Triggered', `Soft Limit of ${this.softLimit} hit (API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining}). Subreddit queue processing will be slowed to 1.5 seconds per.`, 'system', 'warn');
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    this.logger.info(`Couldn't detect specific offenders, slowing all...`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                    for (const m of this.subManagers) {
+                        m.delayBy = 1.5;
+                        m.logger.info(`SLOW MODE (Currently ~${formatNumber(m.eventsRollingAvg + m.rulesUniqueRollingAvg)}req/sec)`, {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                        m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Soft Limit Triggered', `Soft Limit of ${this.softLimit} hit (API Remaining: ${this.client.ratelimitRemaining}). Subreddit queue processing will be slowed to 1.5 seconds per.`, 'system', 'warn');
+                    }
+                }
+                this.nannyMode = 'soft';
+                return
+            }
+
+            if (this.nannyMode !== undefined) {
+                this.logger.info('Turning off due to better conditions...', {leaf: 'Api Nanny'});
+                for (const m of this.subManagers) {
+                    if (m.delayBy !== undefined) {
+                        m.delayBy = undefined;
+                        m.notificationManager.handle('runStateChanged', 'Normal Processing Resumed', 'Slow Mode has been turned off due to better API conditions', 'system');
+                    }
+                    if (m.queueState.state === PAUSED && m.queueState.causedBy === SYSTEM) {
+                        m.startQueue('system', {reason: 'API Nanny has been turned off due to better API conditions'});
+                    }
+                    if (m.eventsState.state === PAUSED && m.eventsState.causedBy === SYSTEM) {
+                        await m.startEvents('system', {reason: 'API Nanny has been turned off due to better API conditions'});
+                    }
+                }
+                await this.runSharedStreams(true);
+                this.nannyMode = undefined;
+            }
+
+        } catch (err: any) {
+            this.logger.error(`Error occurred during nanny loop: ${err.message}`);
             throw err;
-        } finally {
-            this.logger.info('Nanny stopped');
-            this.emitter.emit('nannyStopped');
         }
     }
 }

src/Check/index.ts

@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ import * as RuleSchema from '../Schema/Rule.json';
 import * as RuleSetSchema from '../Schema/RuleSet.json';
 import * as ActionSchema from '../Schema/Action.json';
 import {ActionObjectJson, RuleJson, RuleObjectJson, ActionJson as ActionTypeJson} from "../Common/types";
-import {SubredditResources} from "../Subreddit/SubredditResources";
-import {Author, AuthorCriteria, AuthorOptions} from "../Author/Author";
+import {checkAuthorFilter, SubredditResources} from "../Subreddit/SubredditResources";
+import {Author, AuthorCriteria, AuthorOptions} from '..';
+import {ExtendedSnoowrap} from '../Utils/SnoowrapClients';
+import {isRateLimitError} from "../Utils/Errors";
+import {ErrorWithCause} from "pony-cause";
 
 const checkLogName = truncateStringToLength(25);
 
@@ -42,15 +45,12 @@ export abstract class Check implements ICheck {
     rules: Array<RuleSet | Rule> = [];
     logger: Logger;
     itemIs: TypedActivityStates;
-    authorIs: {
-        include: AuthorCriteria[],
-        exclude: AuthorCriteria[]
-    };
+    authorIs: AuthorOptions;
     cacheUserResult: Required<UserResultCacheOptions>;
     dryRun?: boolean;
     notifyOnTrigger: boolean;
     resources: SubredditResources;
-    client: Snoowrap;
+    client: ExtendedSnoowrap;
 
     constructor(options: CheckOptions) {
         const {
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ export abstract class Check implements ICheck {
             itemIs = [],
             authorIs: {
                 include = [],
+                excludeCondition,
                 exclude = [],
             } = {},
             dryRun,
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ export abstract class Check implements ICheck {
         this.condition = condition;
         this.itemIs = itemIs;
         this.authorIs = {
+            excludeCondition,
             exclude: exclude.map(x => new Author(x)),
             include: include.map(x => new Author(x)),
         }
@@ -158,7 +160,7 @@ export abstract class Check implements ICheck {
         runStats.push(`${this.actions.length} Actions`);
         // not sure if this should be info or verbose
         this.logger.info(`=${this.enabled ? 'Enabled' : 'Disabled'}= ${type.toUpperCase()} (${this.condition})${this.notifyOnTrigger ? ' ||Notify on Trigger|| ' : ''} => ${runStats.join(' | ')}${this.description !== undefined ? ` => ${this.description}` : ''}`);
-        if (this.rules.length === 0 && this.itemIs.length === 0 && this.authorIs.exclude.length === 0 && this.authorIs.include.length === 0) {
+        if (this.rules.length === 0 && this.itemIs.length === 0 && this.authorIs.exclude?.length === 0 && this.authorIs.include?.length === 0) {
             this.logger.warn('No rules, item tests, or author test found -- this check will ALWAYS PASS!');
         }
         let ruleSetIndex = 1;
@@ -201,30 +203,9 @@ export abstract class Check implements ICheck {
                 this.logger.verbose(`${FAIL} => Item did not pass 'itemIs' test`);
                 return [false, allRuleResults];
             }
-            let authorPass = null;
-            if (this.authorIs.include !== undefined && this.authorIs.include.length > 0) {
-                for (const auth of this.authorIs.include) {
-                    if (await this.resources.testAuthorCriteria(item, auth)) {
-                        authorPass = true;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-                if (!authorPass) {
-                    this.logger.verbose(`${FAIL} => Inclusive author criteria not matched`);
-                    return Promise.resolve([false, allRuleResults]);
-                }
-            }
-            if (authorPass === null && this.authorIs.exclude !== undefined && this.authorIs.exclude.length > 0) {
-                for (const auth of this.authorIs.exclude) {
-                    if (await this.resources.testAuthorCriteria(item, auth, false)) {
-                        authorPass = true;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-                if (!authorPass) {
-                    this.logger.verbose(`${FAIL} =>  Exclusive author criteria not matched`);
-                    return Promise.resolve([false, allRuleResults]);
-                }
+            const [authFilterResult, authFilterType] = await checkAuthorFilter(item, this.authorIs, this.resources, this.logger);
+            if(!authFilterResult) {
+                return Promise.resolve([false, allRuleResults]);
             }
 
             if (this.rules.length === 0) {
@@ -268,10 +249,8 @@ export abstract class Check implements ICheck {
             // otherwise AND and did not return already so all passed
             this.logger.info(`${PASS} => Rules: ${resultsSummary(allResults, this.condition)}`);
             return [true, allRuleResults];
-        } catch (e) {
-            e.logged = true;
-            this.logger.warn(`Running rules failed due to uncaught exception`, e);
-            throw e;
+        } catch (e: any) {
+            throw new ErrorWithCause('Running rules failed due to error', {cause: e});
         }
     }
 
@@ -345,13 +324,13 @@ export interface ICheck extends JoinCondition, ChecksActivityState {
 }
 
 export interface CheckOptions extends ICheck {
-    rules: Array<IRuleSet | IRule>
-    actions: ActionConfig[]
-    logger: Logger
-    subredditName: string
-    notifyOnTrigger?: boolean
-    resources: SubredditResources
-    client: Snoowrap
+    rules: Array<IRuleSet | IRule>;
+    actions: ActionConfig[];
+    logger: Logger;
+    subredditName: string;
+    notifyOnTrigger?: boolean;
+    resources: SubredditResources;
+    client: ExtendedSnoowrap;
     cacheUserResult?: UserResultCacheOptions;
 }
 

src/Common/Config/AbstractConfigDocument.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import {ConfigFormat} from "../types";
+
+export interface ConfigDocumentInterface<DocumentType> {
+    format: ConfigFormat;
+    parsed: DocumentType
+    //parsingError: Error | string;
+    raw: string;
+    location?: string;
+    toString(): string;
+    toJS(): object;
+}
+
+abstract class AbstractConfigDocument<DocumentType> implements ConfigDocumentInterface<DocumentType> {
+    public abstract format: ConfigFormat;
+    public abstract parsed: DocumentType;
+    //public abstract parsingError: Error | string;
+
+
+    constructor(public raw: string, public location?: string) {
+    }
+
+
+    public abstract toString(): string;
+    public abstract toJS(): object;
+}
+
+export default AbstractConfigDocument;

src/Common/Config/JsonConfigDocument.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import AbstractConfigDocument from "./AbstractConfigDocument";
+import {stringify, parse} from 'comment-json';
+import JSON5 from 'json5';
+import {ConfigFormat} from "../types";
+import {OperatorJsonConfig} from "../interfaces";
+
+class JsonConfigDocument extends AbstractConfigDocument<OperatorJsonConfig> {
+
+    public parsed: OperatorJsonConfig;
+    protected cleanParsed: OperatorJsonConfig;
+    public format: ConfigFormat;
+
+    public constructor(raw: string, location?: string) {
+        super(raw, location);
+        this.parsed = parse(raw);
+        this.cleanParsed = JSON5.parse(raw);
+        this.format = 'json';
+    }
+
+    public toJS(): OperatorJsonConfig {
+        return this.cleanParsed;
+    }
+
+    public toString(): string {
+        return stringify(this.parsed, null, 1);
+    }
+
+}
+
+export default JsonConfigDocument;

src/Common/Config/Operator/index.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import YamlConfigDocument from "../YamlConfigDocument";
+import JsonConfigDocument from "../JsonConfigDocument";
+import {YAMLMap, YAMLSeq} from "yaml";
+import {BotInstanceJsonConfig, OperatorJsonConfig} from "../../interfaces";
+import {assign} from 'comment-json';
+
+export interface OperatorConfigDocumentInterface {
+    addBot(botData: BotInstanceJsonConfig): void;
+    toJS(): OperatorJsonConfig;
+}
+
+export class YamlOperatorConfigDocument extends YamlConfigDocument implements OperatorConfigDocumentInterface {
+    addBot(botData: BotInstanceJsonConfig) {
+        const bots = this.parsed.get('bots') as YAMLSeq;
+        if (bots === undefined) {
+            this.parsed.add({key: 'bots', value: [botData]});
+        } else if (botData.name !== undefined) {
+            // overwrite if we find an existing
+            const existingIndex = bots.items.findIndex(x => (x as YAMLMap).get('name') === botData.name);
+            if (existingIndex !== -1) {
+                this.parsed.setIn(['bots', existingIndex], botData);
+            } else {
+                this.parsed.addIn(['bots'], botData);
+            }
+        } else {
+            this.parsed.addIn(['bots'], botData);
+        }
+    }
+
+    toJS(): OperatorJsonConfig  {
+        return super.toJS();
+    }
+}
+
+export class JsonOperatorConfigDocument extends JsonConfigDocument implements OperatorConfigDocumentInterface {
+    addBot(botData: BotInstanceJsonConfig) {
+        if (this.parsed.bots === undefined) {
+            this.parsed.bots = [botData];
+        } else if (botData.name !== undefined) {
+            const existingIndex = this.parsed.bots.findIndex(x => x.name === botData.name);
+            if (existingIndex !== -1) {
+                this.parsed.bots[existingIndex] = assign(this.parsed.bots[existingIndex], botData);
+            } else {
+                this.parsed.bots.push(botData);
+            }
+        } else {
+            this.parsed.bots.push(botData);
+        }
+    }
+
+    toJS(): OperatorJsonConfig {
+        return super.toJS();
+    }
+}

src/Common/Config/YamlConfigDocument.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import AbstractConfigDocument from "./AbstractConfigDocument";
+import {Document, parseDocument} from 'yaml';
+import {ConfigFormat} from "../types";
+
+class YamlConfigDocument extends AbstractConfigDocument<Document> {
+
+    public parsed: Document;
+    public format: ConfigFormat;
+
+    public constructor(raw: string, location?: string) {
+        super(raw, location);
+        this.parsed = parseDocument(raw);
+        this.format = 'yaml';
+    }
+    public toJS(): object {
+        return this.parsed.toJS();
+    }
+
+    public toString(): string {
+        return this.parsed.toString();
+    }
+}
+
+export default YamlConfigDocument;

src/Common/ImageData.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+import fetch from "node-fetch";
+import {Submission} from "snoowrap/dist/objects";
+import {URL} from "url";
+import {absPercentDifference, getSharpAsync, isValidImageURL} from "../util";
+import sizeOf from "image-size";
+import {Sharp} from "sharp";
+import {blockhash} from "./blockhash/blockhash";
+import {SimpleError} from "../Utils/Errors";
+
+export interface ImageDataOptions {
+    width?: number,
+    height?: number,
+    url: string,
+    variants?: ImageData[]
+}
+
+class ImageData {
+
+    width?: number
+    height?: number
+    url: URL
+    variants: ImageData[] = []
+    preferredResolution?: [number, number]
+    sharpImg!: Sharp
+    hashResult!: string
+    actualResolution?: [number, number]
+
+    constructor(data: ImageDataOptions, aggressive = false) {
+        this.width = data.width;
+        this.height = data.height;
+        this.url = new URL(data.url);
+        if (!aggressive && !isValidImageURL(`${this.url.origin}${this.url.pathname}`)) {
+            throw new Error('URL did not end with a valid image extension');
+        }
+        this.variants = data.variants || [];
+    }
+
+    async data(format = 'raw'): Promise<Buffer> {
+        // @ts-ignore
+        return await (await this.sharp()).clone().toFormat(format).toBuffer();
+    }
+
+    async hash(bits: number, useVariantIfPossible = true): Promise<string> {
+        if(this.hashResult === undefined) {
+            let ref: ImageData | undefined;
+            if(useVariantIfPossible && this.preferredResolution !== undefined) {
+                ref = this.getSimilarResolutionVariant(this.preferredResolution[0], this.preferredResolution[1]);
+            }
+            if(ref === undefined) {
+                ref = this;
+            }
+            this.hashResult = await blockhash((await ref.sharp()).clone(), bits);
+        }
+        return this.hashResult;
+    }
+
+    async sharp(): Promise<Sharp> {
+        if (this.sharpImg === undefined) {
+            try {
+                const response = await fetch(this.url.toString())
+                if (response.ok) {
+                    const ct = response.headers.get('Content-Type');
+                    if (ct !== null && ct.includes('image')) {
+                        const sFunc = await getSharpAsync();
+                        // if image is animated then we want to extract the first frame and convert it to a regular image
+                        // so we can compare two static images later (also because sharp can't use resize() on animated images)
+                        if(['gif','webp'].some(x => ct.includes(x))) {
+                            this.sharpImg = await sFunc(await (await sFunc(await response.buffer(), {pages: 1, animated: false})).png().toBuffer());
+                        } else {
+                            this.sharpImg = await sFunc(await response.buffer());
+                        }
+                        const meta = await this.sharpImg.metadata();
+                        if (this.width === undefined || this.height === undefined) {
+                            this.width = meta.width;
+                            this.height = meta.height;
+                        }
+                        this.actualResolution = [meta.width as number, meta.height as number];
+                    } else {
+                        throw new SimpleError(`Content-Type for fetched URL ${this.url} did not contain "image"`);
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    throw new SimpleError(`URL response was not OK: (${response.status})${response.statusText}`);
+                }
+
+
+            } catch (err: any) {
+                if(!(err instanceof SimpleError)) {
+                    throw new Error(`Error occurred while fetching response from URL: ${err.message}`);
+                } else {
+                    throw err;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return this.sharpImg;
+    }
+
+    get pixels() {
+        if (this.actualResolution !== undefined) {
+            return this.actualResolution[0] * this.actualResolution[1];
+        }
+        if (this.width === undefined || this.height === undefined) {
+            return undefined;
+        }
+        return this.width * this.height;
+    }
+
+    get hasDimensions() {
+        return this.width !== undefined && this.height !== undefined;
+    }
+
+    get baseUrl() {
+        return `${this.url.origin}${this.url.pathname}`;
+    }
+
+    setPreferredResolutionByWidth(prefWidth: number) {
+        let height: number | undefined = undefined,
+            width: number | undefined = undefined;
+        if (this.variants.length === 0) {
+            return;
+        }
+        for (const v of this.variants) {
+            if (v.hasDimensions && (v.width as number) <= prefWidth) {
+                width = v.width as number;
+                height = v.height as number;
+            }
+        }
+        if (width !== undefined) {
+            this.preferredResolution = [width, (height as number)];
+        }
+    }
+
+    getSimilarResolutionVariant(width: number, height: number, allowablePercentDiff = 0): ImageData | undefined {
+        if (this.variants.length === 0) {
+            return undefined;
+        }
+        return this.variants.find(x => {
+            return x.hasDimensions && (absPercentDifference(width, x.width as number) <= allowablePercentDiff) && (absPercentDifference(height, x.height as number) <= allowablePercentDiff);
+        });
+    }
+
+    isSameDimensions(otherImage: ImageData) {
+        if (!this.hasDimensions || !otherImage.hasDimensions) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return this.width === otherImage.width && this.height === otherImage.height;
+    }
+
+    async sameAspectRatio(otherImage: ImageData) {
+        let thisRes = this.actualResolution;
+        let otherRes = otherImage.actualResolution;
+        if(thisRes === undefined) {
+            const tMeta = await (await this.sharp()).metadata();
+            const thisMeta = {width: tMeta.width as  number, height: tMeta.height as number };
+            this.actualResolution = [thisMeta.width, thisMeta.height];
+            thisRes = this.actualResolution;
+        }
+        if(otherRes === undefined) {
+            const otherMeta = await (await otherImage.sharp()).metadata();
+            otherRes = [otherMeta.width as number, otherMeta.height as number];
+        }
+        const thisRatio = thisRes[0] / thisRes[1];
+        const otherRatio = otherRes[0] / otherRes[1];
+
+        // a little leeway
+        return Math.abs(thisRatio - otherRatio) < 0.1;
+    }
+
+    static async dimensionsFromMetadata(img: Sharp) {
+        const {width, height, ...rest} = await img.metadata();
+        return {width: width as number, height: height as number};
+    }
+
+    async normalizeImagesForComparison(compareLibrary: ('pixel' | 'resemble'), imgToCompare: ImageData): Promise<[Sharp, Sharp, number, number]> {
+        const sFunc = await getSharpAsync();
+
+        let refImage = this as ImageData;
+        let compareImage = imgToCompare;
+        if (this.preferredResolution !== undefined) {
+            const matchingVariant = compareImage.getSimilarResolutionVariant(this.preferredResolution[0], this.preferredResolution[1]);
+            if (matchingVariant !== undefined) {
+                compareImage = matchingVariant;
+                refImage = this.getSimilarResolutionVariant(this.preferredResolution[0], this.preferredResolution[1]) as ImageData;
+            }
+        }
+
+        let refSharp = (await refImage.sharp()).clone();
+        let refMeta = await ImageData.dimensionsFromMetadata(refSharp);
+        let compareSharp = (await compareImage.sharp()).clone();
+        let compareMeta = await ImageData.dimensionsFromMetadata(compareSharp);
+
+        // if dimensions on not the same we need to crop or resize before final resize
+        if (refMeta.width !== compareMeta.width || refMeta.height !== compareMeta.height) {
+            const thisRatio = refMeta.width / (refMeta.height);
+            const otherRatio = compareMeta.width / compareMeta.height;
+
+            const sameRatio = Math.abs(thisRatio - otherRatio) < 0.04;
+            if (sameRatio) {
+                // then resize first since its most likely the same image
+                // can be fairly sure a downscale will get pixels close to the same
+                if (refMeta.width > compareMeta.width) {
+                    refSharp = sFunc(await refSharp.resize(compareMeta.width, null, {fit: 'outside'}).toBuffer());
+                } else {
+                    compareSharp = sFunc(await compareSharp.resize(refMeta.width, null, {fit: 'outside'}).toBuffer());
+                }
+                refMeta = await ImageData.dimensionsFromMetadata(refSharp);
+                compareMeta = await ImageData.dimensionsFromMetadata(compareSharp);
+            }
+            // find smallest common dimensions
+            const sWidth = refMeta.width <= compareMeta.width ? refMeta.width : compareMeta.width;
+            const sHeight = refMeta.height <= compareMeta.height ? refMeta.height : compareMeta.height;
+
+            // crop if necessary
+            if(sWidth !== refMeta.width || sHeight !== refMeta.height) {
+                refSharp = sFunc(await refSharp.extract({left: 0, top: 0, width: sWidth, height: sHeight}).toBuffer());
+            }
+            if(sWidth !== compareMeta.width || sHeight !== compareMeta.height) {
+                compareSharp = sFunc(await compareSharp.extract({left: 0, top: 0, width: sWidth, height: sHeight}).toBuffer());
+            }
+        }
+
+        // final resize to reduce memory/cpu usage during comparison
+        refSharp = sFunc(await refSharp.resize(400, null, {fit: 'outside'}).toBuffer());
+        compareSharp = sFunc(await compareSharp.resize(400, null, {fit: 'outside'}).toBuffer());
+
+        const {width, height} = await ImageData.dimensionsFromMetadata(refSharp);
+        return [refSharp, compareSharp, width, height];
+    }
+
+    static fromSubmission(sub: Submission, aggressive = false): ImageData {
+        const url = new URL(sub.url);
+        const data: any = {
+            url,
+        };
+        let variants = [];
+        if (sub.preview !== undefined && sub.preview.enabled && sub.preview.images.length > 0) {
+            const firstImg = sub.preview.images[0];
+            const ref = sub.preview.images[0].source;
+            data.width = ref.width;
+            data.height = ref.height;
+
+            variants = firstImg.resolutions.map(x => new ImageData(x));
+            data.variants = variants;
+        }
+        return new ImageData(data, aggressive);
+    }
+}
+
+export default ImageData;

src/Common/blockhash/blockhash.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+// Perceptual image hash calculation tool based on algorithm descibed in
+// Block Mean Value Based Image Perceptual Hashing by Bian Yang, Fan Gu and Xiamu Niu
+//
+// Copyright 2014 Commons Machinery http://commonsmachinery.se/
+// Distributed under an MIT license, please see LICENSE in the top dir.
+
+
+// https://github.com/commonsmachinery/blockhash-js/blob/master/index.js
+
+import {Sharp} from "sharp";
+
+interface BlockImageData {
+    data: Buffer,
+    width: number,
+    height: number
+}
+
+var one_bits = [0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4];
+
+/* Calculate the hamming distance for two hashes in hex format */
+export const hammingDistance = (hash1: string, hash2: string) => {
+    var d = 0;
+    var i;
+
+    if (hash1.length !== hash2.length) {
+        throw new Error("Can't compare hashes with different length");
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; i < hash1.length; i++) {
+        var n1 = parseInt(hash1[i], 16);
+        var n2 = parseInt(hash2[i], 16);
+        d += one_bits[n1 ^ n2];
+    }
+    return d;
+};
+
+var median = function(data: number[]) {
+    var mdarr = data.slice(0);
+    mdarr.sort(function(a, b) { return a-b; });
+    if (mdarr.length % 2 === 0) {
+        return (mdarr[mdarr.length/2 - 1] + mdarr[mdarr.length/2]) / 2.0;
+    }
+    return mdarr[Math.floor(mdarr.length/2)];
+};
+
+var translate_blocks_to_bits = function(blocks: number[], pixels_per_block: number) {
+    var half_block_value = pixels_per_block * 256 * 3 / 2;
+    var bandsize = blocks.length / 4;
+
+    // Compare medians across four horizontal bands
+    for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
+        var m = median(blocks.slice(i * bandsize, (i + 1) * bandsize));
+        for (var j = i * bandsize; j < (i + 1) * bandsize; j++) {
+            var v = blocks[j];
+
+            // Output a 1 if the block is brighter than the median.
+            // With images dominated by black or white, the median may
+            // end up being 0 or the max value, and thus having a lot
+            // of blocks of value equal to the median.  To avoid
+            // generating hashes of all zeros or ones, in that case output
+            // 0 if the median is in the lower value space, 1 otherwise
+            blocks[j] = Number(v > m || (Math.abs(v - m) < 1 && m > half_block_value));
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+var bits_to_hexhash = function(bitsArray: number[]) {
+    var hex = [];
+    for (var i = 0; i < bitsArray.length; i += 4) {
+        var nibble = bitsArray.slice(i, i + 4);
+        hex.push(parseInt(nibble.join(''), 2).toString(16));
+    }
+
+    return hex.join('');
+};
+
+var bmvbhash_even = function(data: BlockImageData, bits: number) {
+    var blocksize_x = Math.floor(data.width / bits);
+    var blocksize_y = Math.floor(data.height / bits);
+
+    var result = [];
+
+    for (var y = 0; y < bits; y++) {
+        for (var x = 0; x < bits; x++) {
+            var total = 0;
+
+            for (var iy = 0; iy < blocksize_y; iy++) {
+                for (var ix = 0; ix < blocksize_x; ix++) {
+                    var cx = x * blocksize_x + ix;
+                    var cy = y * blocksize_y + iy;
+                    var ii = (cy * data.width + cx) * 4;
+
+                    var alpha = data.data[ii+3];
+                    if (alpha === 0) {
+                        total += 765;
+                    } else {
+                        total += data.data[ii] + data.data[ii+1] + data.data[ii+2];
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            result.push(total);
+        }
+    }
+
+    translate_blocks_to_bits(result, blocksize_x * blocksize_y);
+    return bits_to_hexhash(result);
+};
+
+var bmvbhash = function(data: BlockImageData, bits: number) {
+    var result = [];
+
+    var i, j, x, y;
+    var block_width, block_height;
+    var weight_top, weight_bottom, weight_left, weight_right;
+    var block_top, block_bottom, block_left, block_right;
+    var y_mod, y_frac, y_int;
+    var x_mod, x_frac, x_int;
+    var blocks: number[][] = [];
+
+    var even_x = data.width % bits === 0;
+    var even_y = data.height % bits === 0;
+
+    if (even_x && even_y) {
+        return bmvbhash_even(data, bits);
+    }
+
+    // initialize blocks array with 0s
+    for (i = 0; i < bits; i++) {
+        blocks.push([]);
+        for (j = 0; j < bits; j++) {
+            blocks[i].push(0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    block_width = data.width / bits;
+    block_height = data.height / bits;
+
+    for (y = 0; y < data.height; y++) {
+        if (even_y) {
+            // don't bother dividing y, if the size evenly divides by bits
+            block_top = block_bottom = Math.floor(y / block_height);
+            weight_top = 1;
+            weight_bottom = 0;
+        } else {
+            y_mod = (y + 1) % block_height;
+            y_frac = y_mod - Math.floor(y_mod);
+            y_int = y_mod - y_frac;
+
+            weight_top = (1 - y_frac);
+            weight_bottom = (y_frac);
+
+            // y_int will be 0 on bottom/right borders and on block boundaries
+            if (y_int > 0 || (y + 1) === data.height) {
+                block_top = block_bottom = Math.floor(y / block_height);
+            } else {
+                block_top = Math.floor(y / block_height);
+                block_bottom = Math.ceil(y / block_height);
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (x = 0; x < data.width; x++) {
+            var ii = (y * data.width + x) * 4;
+
+            var avgvalue, alpha = data.data[ii+3];
+            if (alpha === 0) {
+                avgvalue = 765;
+            } else {
+                avgvalue = data.data[ii] + data.data[ii+1] + data.data[ii+2];
+            }
+
+            if (even_x) {
+                block_left = block_right = Math.floor(x / block_width);
+                weight_left = 1;
+                weight_right = 0;
+            } else {
+                x_mod = (x + 1) % block_width;
+                x_frac = x_mod - Math.floor(x_mod);
+                x_int = x_mod - x_frac;
+
+                weight_left = (1 - x_frac);
+                weight_right = x_frac;
+
+                // x_int will be 0 on bottom/right borders and on block boundaries
+                if (x_int > 0 || (x + 1) === data.width) {
+                    block_left = block_right = Math.floor(x / block_width);
+                } else {
+                    block_left = Math.floor(x / block_width);
+                    block_right = Math.ceil(x / block_width);
+                }
+            }
+
+            // add weighted pixel value to relevant blocks
+            blocks[block_top][block_left] += avgvalue * weight_top * weight_left;
+            blocks[block_top][block_right] += avgvalue * weight_top * weight_right;
+            blocks[block_bottom][block_left] += avgvalue * weight_bottom * weight_left;
+            blocks[block_bottom][block_right] += avgvalue * weight_bottom * weight_right;
+        }
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; i < bits; i++) {
+        for (j = 0; j < bits; j++) {
+            result.push(blocks[i][j]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    translate_blocks_to_bits(result, block_width * block_height);
+    return bits_to_hexhash(result);
+};
+
+var blockhashData = function(imgData: BlockImageData, bits: number, method: number) {
+    var hash;
+
+    if (method === 1) {
+        hash = bmvbhash_even(imgData, bits);
+    }
+    else if (method === 2) {
+        hash = bmvbhash(imgData, bits);
+    }
+    else {
+        throw new Error("Bad hashing method");
+    }
+
+    return hash;
+};
+
+export const blockhash = async function(src: Sharp, bits: number, method: number = 2): Promise<string> {
+    const {data: buff, info} = await src.ensureAlpha().raw().toBuffer({resolveWithObject: true});
+    return blockhashData({
+        width: info.width,
+        height: info.height,
+        data: buff,
+    }, bits, method);
+};

src/Common/defaults.ts

@@ -1,2 +1,43 @@
+import {HistoricalStats, FilterCriteriaDefaults} from "./interfaces";
+
 export const cacheOptDefaults = {ttl: 60, max: 500, checkPeriod: 600};
-export const cacheTTLDefaults = {authorTTL: 60, userNotesTTL: 300, wikiTTL: 300, submissionTTL: 60, commentTTL: 60, filterCriteriaTTL: 60};
+export const cacheTTLDefaults = {authorTTL: 60, userNotesTTL: 300, wikiTTL: 300, submissionTTL: 60, commentTTL: 60, filterCriteriaTTL: 60, subredditTTL: 600, selfTTL: 60};
+export const historicalDefaults: HistoricalStats = {
+    eventsCheckedTotal: 0,
+    eventsActionedTotal: 0,
+    checksRun: new Map(),
+    checksFromCache: new Map(),
+    checksTriggered: new Map(),
+    rulesRun: new Map(),
+    //rulesCached: new Map(),
+    rulesCachedTotal: 0,
+    rulesTriggered: new Map(),
+    actionsRun: new Map(),
+}
+
+export const createHistoricalDefaults = (): HistoricalStats => {
+    return {
+        eventsCheckedTotal: 0,
+        eventsActionedTotal: 0,
+        checksRun: new Map(),
+        checksFromCache: new Map(),
+        checksTriggered: new Map(),
+        rulesRun: new Map(),
+        //rulesCached: new Map(),
+        rulesCachedTotal: 0,
+        rulesTriggered: new Map(),
+        actionsRun: new Map(),
+    };
+}
+
+export const filterCriteriaDefault: FilterCriteriaDefaults = {
+    authorIs: {
+        exclude: [
+            {
+                isMod: true
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+}
+
+export const VERSION = '0.10.12';