unfollow someone if they send STOP #14
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Rationale: reduce false alarms triggered by people who are talking amongst themselves in a thread where the bot is tagged.
1. Consider STOP only for DMs just to us in reply to us 2. Send a farewell DM 3. Save aggregate unfollow usage
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Fixes #11. This is a feature suggested by Ted Young: if someone replies
STOPto us (whole word, exact case), and they don't follow us, we should stop following them so we stop sending them notifications.This is an alternative to what we've been telling people: just block the bot.
Note that the bot does have a way to fetch all accounts its following and ensure they're following us back (and unfollow anyone who isn't following us any more) but we don't use this because we have thousands of followers and we'll run into server rate limits if we do this with any regularity.
There is a cost to this: every time we receive
STOP, we hit the/relationshipsendpoint to see if they follow us/we follow them.If we do wind up unfollowing, we send them a farewell DM to confirm.