ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge v2.16.0-Beta3

2.16.0-Beta3

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🎉 [2.16] New Features:

• ### Stolen Comment Detection
  - New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  - By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  - By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
  - Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments
  
• ### Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files
  
  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
    
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look
      

📈 [2.16] Other Improvements

• #### Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)
  
• #### Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them
  
• #### Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode
  
• #### Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned
  
• #### Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)
  
• #### New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary
  
• #### Many filtering and detection improvements
  

[2.16] Other Changes & Fixes

• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
  
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
  
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
  
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
  
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries
  

Beta1 → Beta2:

• New stolen comment detection feature
  
• Reworked filter variable intake
  
• Added colors_enabled config setting
  

🟢 Beta2 → Beta3:

• Fixed Various Crashes including #653, #654
  
• In match samples list, added warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them
  
• Log file now includes timestamp of each comment
  
• Moved confusable modules to local, with slightly modified version. Added several custom confusable characters that weren't being detected. Should further improve spam detection in some cases.
  
• Added some filters for comments targeted at specific large channels including Markiplier & Jacksepticeye, and that often overflow elsewhere
  
• Improved / fixed behavior of certain regex filters. Converted remaining filter lists to regex. Should improve filtering ability