Exclude spam links from mememe results

[Ben Welsh]

Thanks Sam. I'll give it a hack!

Another mememe bug. If I feed in multiple Delicious feeds, when multiple
people link the same third-party page, the second one will replace the first
one. My hope is that they'd instead redouble each other and push it up the
meme poll. Know what I mean?

Here's the link: news.palewire.com

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys at intertwingly.net> wrote:

> Ben Welsh wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > i'm curious if anyone can help me exclude specific links from mememe
> > compliation. An example would be self-promotional links that a site includes
> > with every post.
> >
>
> I haven't tested it, but a change like the one listed at the bottom of
> this email would probably meet your needs.  If you get something that you
> can verify works for you, I'll gladly add it to my repository.
>
> Usage would be something like the following:
>
> [mememe.plugin]
> spam:
>  http://foo.org/
>  http://bar.com/
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> === modified file 'filters/mememe.plugin'
> --- filters/mememe.plugin       2008-02-05 01:27:05 +0000
> +++ filters/mememe.plugin       2008-04-20 10:59:51 +0000
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
>  import feedparser
>  log = planet.logger
>  options = config.filter_options(sys.argv[0])
> +spam = options.get('spam', '').split()
>
>  MEMES_ATOM = os.path.join(config.output_dir(),'memes.atom')
>
> @@ -375,6 +376,7 @@
>  from urllib import quote_plus
>  for i in range(0,len(weighted_links)):
>   weight, link, updated = weighted_links[i]
> +  if link in spam: continue
>
>   # ensure that somebody new points to this entry.  This guards against
>   # groups of related links which several posts point to all.
>
>
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