Whitelist/blacklist of users

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User request:

What I do is give an option for the mods to either ban the user or just soft ban them (remove anything they post). We usually use the latter feature as it feels better for user experience

The flow is as follows:

Whitelist = { list of users who wont pass filters otherwise but are proven good accounts so don't get checked...}
Blacklist = { users who are proven bad accounts }

submission -> if OP is in whitelist, ignore and move on -> if OP is in blacklist, remove and move on, otherwise submission checked against some filters -> if positive, gets removed else gets approved

mods can whitelist users with commands like !whitelist

by not banning users, we keep things smooth as we dont want to be seen as indiscriminately banning certain types of users and many times there are false positives so we can review and whitelist them

our whitelist was built manually by whitelisting users back when we first started using the script. it was a rough couple of weeks and we were reviewing everything submitted but now we are at the point where we have the core list of our users