Democracy Discord Bot

A Discord bot that implements a private ranked-choice voting system for Discord guilds to use.

Setup

Gathering the files note:

• In addition to a git clone of this repository, you need to clone the sub-repository, using a command like git submodule update --init --recursive.

Start Script

The start.sh file is used by the restart command and should be maintained as correct to the environment to launch a new bot program instance... points of note:

• It starts with a git pull command to self-update. If this is not wanted, remove it. Be careful what repository this will pull from (a fork you own vs. the original repository vs. some other one...)
• It uses a screen command to launch the bot quietly into a background screen. The screen program must be installed for that to work. Alternately, replace it with some other equivalent background terminal program.
• The restart command will run this script equivalently to the following terminal command: bash ./start.sh 12345 where 12345 is the ID number for the channel that issued a restart command.

Configuration:

• You need a config directory, within the program's run directory
  • Within that directory, you need token.txt containing the bot token to use
  • You also need config.fds, a FreneticDataSyntax file containing configuration detail, per the format below:

# Guild to use. Sample ID is fake.
guild_id: 341234567893012345
# Admin user IDs to trust with admin commands. Sample ID is my own.
admins:
- 105458332365504512
# Leave blank for now... these will be filled automatically by the bot later.
vote_topics:
old_topics:

To start the bot up:

• Run ./start.sh while in the bot's directory.

To view the bot's terminal:

• Connect to the screen - with an unaltered start.sh file, the way to connect to that is by running screen -r DemocracyDiscordBot.

Copyright/Legal Info

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 Alex "mcmonkey" Goodwin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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