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Fix double posting #24

Closed nikosbosse closed 1 year ago

nikosbosse commented 2 years ago

We recently had an issue with the Metaculus Alert bot double posting stuff, see https://twitter.com/MetaculusAlert/status/1563949726097195008.

What I did for now was just deactivate the bot altogether because I'm currently absolutely swamped with things, but that's of course not ideal. Does anyone have time to take a quick look at what might have happened and how to fix it? @edomt @adam-binks @Scott-Huston Thank you very much!

edomt commented 2 years ago

I have a pretty clear idea for a fix that won't be too difficult to implement. Instead of checking already-tweeted alerts based on the question title, we can keep a tiny 'database' of recent alerts as a CSV file, and compare timestamps before tweeting.

I'll work on a PR today.