Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce that r/Cash4Cash has brought a Swap Bot online!

The bot’s name is u/c4c_bot. Read on to find out what the bot can do and how you can now get your flair updated without mod intervention.

TLDR No more managing profiles on r/C4CRep and no more sending a mod mail message to increase your flair. Instead, tag your partner and the bot in the thread where the swap originated to get credit.

Feedback

Users can get transaction feedback with the following process:

• Users A and B complete their trades following all of the sub rules. (It does not matter who A and B are. Either one could be the person making the post, and the other someone commenting on the post).

• Once the trade is complete, User A makes a top level comment (new comment) on the original post where the transaction originated, tagging both the user they worked with and u/c4c_bot.

• User B replies to that comment with their feedback.

• u/c4c_bot picks up the interaction and gives credit to both users, changing their flair accordingly and leaves a comment indicating as such.

• If User A messes up their top level comment, u/c4c_bot will do its best to notify User A.

There are automatic checks in the code to detect anyone trying to cheat the system. If anyone is found trying to circumvent the system, they will be issued a permanent ban.

Feedback Checking

Using this link, you can send a message to u/c4c_bot, asking for the feedback of any given user. It will tell you the following:

• The number of transactions that person has done

• The people they have traded with (and how many transactions those people have)

• A link to the thread for each successful trade

Please feel free to direct any technical questions to the moderators using modmail. If you do not know how to use modmail, please click this link.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

• Will my old flair carry over?

  • Yes, flair was backfilled from r/C4CRep. A detailed explanation of how flair was backfilled is as follows:
  • The system crawled through over 11,000 posts on r/C4CRep to find (hopefully) all of the profile posts made to the sub in its entire history
  • Each post was then individually crawled for top level comments made by the OP
  • Each comment was then crawled for replies, where the reply was authored by someone tagged in the respective top level comment.
  • If all of the above criteria was met, a single count of reputation was given to the owner of the profile post.

• My flair looks wrong! What gives??

  • As mentioned above, flair was backfilled using existing information. If you feel that your count is lower than it should be, it could be due to any of the follow factors:
  • You didn't have a profile on r/C4CRep
  • You didn't attempt to confirm as many transactions as you think you did on your profile
  • Your partner never replied to your attempt at confirmations
  • You never tagged your partner in your confirmations
  • Despite your partner replying to your tag, you misspelled their name so the bot didn't pick it up
  • Your profile is located somewhere other than r/C4CRep (like on your own reddit page).
  • You deleted your profile

• I read all of the bullet points above and none of them apply to me. I am 100% convinced that the bot missed a piece of feedback for me. Can you help me out?

  • Yes! For starters, please send a PM to the bot containing just your username (like in the feedback checking section above). Then, look at the reply the bot gives. If you expected to see more confirmations than the bot gave you, please send me a DM with links to the confirmations you're missing. Messages without links will be ignored. Messages containing links that violate any of the above bulleted reasons for not getting credit will be ignored. Please only message me (u/RegExr) if you are 100% sure that the bot did not properly backfill your reputation profile.

• I forgot to get credit using the old system. Can I use this bot to get credit for old transactions?

  • Absolutely! If you did NOT already get credit for a transaction, please use the system as described above.

• I am trying to use the system as described above but I can't make a comment on my post. What gives?

  • Reddit archives posts that are older than 6 months. If you're trying to get credit from a transaction older than 6 months, it won't work. Sorry.

• What happens if I tag someone and they don't reply?

  • As mentioned above, we do need them to confirm the trade for the trade to be confirmed. They will get a notification when you tag them so if you encourage them to reply in the comment you tagged them in, hopefully they will. Otherwise, if it's been a few days without a response, PM them a link to the comment and directly ask them to reply.

If you have any questions on using the bot, please post them here and I'll answer ASAP.

Thanks for being an awesome community, looking forward to this bot helping streamline the trading process!

- u/RegExr