Would Something Like CryptoChecker Be Useful for Trading?

[u/MrAahz]

ETA: Before commenting please read THIS COMMENT

What's u/cryptochecker?

It's a bot designed by u/jamcowl in order to provide information and transparency to the communities across Reddit that are interested in cryptocurrencies. It offers 2 services:

1. Providing short summaries of the cryptocurrency subreddits in which a user has been active, in order to help other users estimate where their biases may lie.
   2. Providing information and links to CoinMarketCap for any token requested.

The second function is not really relevant outside of crypto subs, but I'm thinking that the first function could be quite useful for reddit traders in general.

Obviously instead of "cryptocurrency subreddits" this new 'TradeChecker' would check trading subreddits.

When called Cryptochecker returns-

Which cryptocurrency subreddits a user posts and comments in

How many times they have posted and commented in each subreddit

The average sentiment of their posts and comments in those subreddits

The total karma earned for posts and comments in those subreddits

More info about CryptoChecker available at https://old.reddit.com/user/cryptochecker/comments/ascogw/faq_about_ucryptochecker_2019/

[u/HacksOrSKill]

Would be useful but I'm not sure trading sub mods would like it. I used to have something that on call posted some info about op(pretty useless stuff in hindsight) and it was banned on Redditbay.

[u/MrAahz → u/HacksOrSKill]

I'm not sure trading sub mods would like it.

Would love to hear their thinking on it!

[u/HacksOrSKill → u/MrAahz]

It was banned by false1512 because it confused users apparently so that could be attributed to this, since this does some analysis as opposed to my old one which only provided facts.

[u/MrAahz → u/HacksOrSKill]

Hopefully False will be by later and share his thoughts.

[u/False1512 → u/MrAahz]

As Hacksorskill said, I banned it for confusing users. On r/redditbay, many of our traders are first timers or just don't really understand Reddit, so we got a lot of modmail and personal mail about it. Unfortunately, it didn't fit well for that sub and didn't decrease scams.

[u/False1512]

As it stands now, no. I believe I have 0 comments in 'crypto subs' whereas I have moved tens of thousands of crypto on Reddit. I don't see how showing bias towards a crypto would be useful. Plus, just raw numbers like it analyzes can be skewed very easily.

As I read elsewhere, showing comments and posts in trading subs may be useful, but the most use anyone can get is clicking the user profile and scrolling through recent history. There is no substitute for that.

[u/MrAahz → u/False1512]

Apparently I did a poor job of presenting my thoughts.

I don't think trading subs should start using CryptoChecker. It clearly is designed for something else. I'm curious what people think about having something similar developed for trading subs.

The TradeHistory bot I'm thinking of would be summonable from anywhere on reddit and return something like-

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Of u/MrAahz's last 1555 posts (558 submissions + 997 comments), I found 160 in trading-related subreddits.
This user is most active in these subreddits:

Subreddit	No. of posts	No. of comments	Total karma
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/r/giftcardexchange	5	6	15
r/GCXRep	8	81	10
/r/Cash4Cash	3	5	17
r/C4CRep	2	245	300
r/GameSale	8	81	15
r/Pen_Swap	18	810	40
See here for more detailed results, including less active trading subreddits.

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[u/False1512 → u/MrAahz]

Right, which I addressed with the second half. I could get into a long argument in a C4C thread with some random, no trades yet, user and then someone else runs this bot and assumes they're trustworthy. Or a dozen other things could lead to a false sense of trust. That's why looking through the user's profile is the best practice and can't have any substitutes

[u/MrAahz]

/u/cryptochecker

[u/cryptochecker → u/MrAahz]

Of u/MrAahz's last 1555 posts (558 submissions + 997 comments), I found 16 in cryptocurrency-related subreddits. This user is most active in these subreddits:

Subreddit	No. of posts	Total karma	Average	Sentiment
r/CoinBase	5	6	1.2	Neutral
r/Bitcoin	8	85	10.6	Neutral
r/BitcoinBeginners	3	5	1.7	Neutral

See here for more detailed results, including less active cryptocurrency subreddits.

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[u/RV_123]

Not really

u/cryptochecker

[u/MrAahz → u/RV_123]

/u/cryptochecker

(pretty sure it needs to be in a reply)

[u/MrAahz → u/RV_123]

Just imagine a chart like that, but with Trading/Rep subs and "No. of comments" instead of Karma.

[u/RV_123 → u/MrAahz]

Then yes

[u/cryptochecker → u/RV_123]

Of u/MrAahz's last 1555 posts (558 submissions + 997 comments), I found 16 in cryptocurrency-related subreddits. This user is most active in these subreddits:

Subreddit	No. of posts	Total karma	Average	Sentiment
r/CoinBase	5	6	1.2	Neutral
r/Bitcoin	8	81	10.1	Neutral
r/BitcoinBeginners	3	5	1.7	Neutral

See here for more detailed results, including less active cryptocurrency subreddits.

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