feat(promoted): apply the moderation mute list to promoted entries - #80
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Muting an account from the moderation account is how spam and phishing are kept out of the waves feeds, and the indexer applies that list to every waves query it serves. Promoted entries do not go through it: they are served from here. That left a paid placement as the one surface a muted account could still reach an audience through, and the most prominent one in the feed. Read the list straight from chain (condenser_api.get_following ... "ignore", paged) rather than from another service, so it holds even when the indexer is behind, and cache it for 5 minutes since it only changes when a moderator acts. A failed refresh falls back to the last list we saw and re-arms the short TTL with it, so an unreachable node degrades to slightly stale filtering instead of none, and does not put an RPC call on every request for the duration. With no list at all the feed is served unfiltered rather than failing: a moderation filter that cannot load must not take the feed down. Filtered after the promoted cache is read, not before, so a new mute applies on the mute list's own refresh instead of waiting out the 5-minute promoted cache.
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PR Summary by QodoApply moderation mute list to promoted entries
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The promoted-feed mute filter can still fault a request when an entry contains a non-string author value, causing malformed promoted data to make the feed unavailable. This issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PromotedEntries
participant ModerationMutes
participant HiveRpcClient
PromotedEntries->>ModerationMutes: Get muted accounts
ModerationMutes->>HiveRpcClient: Fetch ecency following pages
HiveRpcClient-->>ModerationMutes: Return following rows
ModerationMutes-->>PromotedEntries: Return cached mute set
PromotedEntries->>ModerationMutes: Filter promoted entries
ModerationMutes-->>PromotedEntries: Return unmuted entries
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In `@dotnet/EcencyApi/Infrastructure/ModerationMutes.cs`:
- Around line 65-75: Remove the Console.WriteLine call from the exception
handler in ModerationMutes.Get, while preserving the stale-cache recovery using
lastGood, MemCache.Set, and ToSet.
- Around line 159-161: In ModerationMutes.cs at lines 159-161 and 130-132,
replace the dynamic JSON string reads for author and following with
JsVal.TryGetStringLenient. Preserve entries with unreadable author values, while
skipping rows with unreadable following values so refresh continues without
throwing.
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Use JsVal.TryGetStringLenient for both dynamic JSON fields.
GetValue<string>() can throw for an unreadable author or following. An unreadable author can fail the promoted-entries request. An unreadable following can abort mute-list refresh and return no filtering when no last-good list exists.
Replace both reads with JsVal.TryGetStringLenient. Keep unreadable entries and skip unreadable following rows.
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dotnet/EcencyApi/Infrastructure/ModerationMutes.cs#L159-L161(this comment)dotnet/EcencyApi/Infrastructure/ModerationMutes.cs#L130-L132
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In `@dotnet/EcencyApi/Infrastructure/ModerationMutes.cs` around lines 159 - 161,
In ModerationMutes.cs at lines 159-161 and 130-132, replace the dynamic JSON
string reads for author and following with JsVal.TryGetStringLenient. Preserve
entries with unreadable author values, while skipping rows with unreadable
following values so refresh continues without throwing.
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Four points from the bot reviews, all fair: Fetch treated any non-array RPC result as "no more rows" and returned what it had, so a node answering 200 with an unusable body cached an empty mute list as both the live and the fallback copy: filtering silently off, nothing anywhere saying so. HiveRpcClient already supports shape validation for exactly this, so pass it and let an unusable answer fail over and, if no node can answer, throw into the existing fallback. An empty list is still served live -- unmuting everyone must take effect -- but no longer overwrites the fallback, so one empty answer cannot turn every later failure into no filtering at all. GetValue<string>() throws on a lone-surrogate escape, which JSON.parse accepts and Hive nodes do emit; that is why JsVal.TryGetStringLenient exists. Reading author and following through it means one malformed name can no longer fail a promoted-entries request or abort a refresh. Drop the Console.WriteLine: this runs on a request path, where the service keeps its logs quiet (CLAUDE.md §6). The fallback, not the log line, is what makes the failure survivable. Serialize refreshes behind a gate. Without one, every request arriving after the TTL lapses started its own paging loop.
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Thanks — four findings, all fair, all fixed in the follow-up commit. Unvalidated RPC result cached (Qodo, High) — the real bug here, and worth spelling out. Now
Refresh stampede (Qodo, Medium) — fixed with a Mute fetch log lacks stack trace (Qodo, Low) — not taking this one, because it contradicts the finding above it and the repo rule behind it. The fix for an unloadable mute list is the fallback chain, not a stack trace on a hot path; adding Suite is 171 → 173, green. |
Found reviewing my own fix for the refresh stampede: the gate made the outage case worse than having no gate at all. On failure nothing was cached, so every request that queued behind the refresh woke up, re-read an empty cache and ran its own full node-failover sweep. The Nth caller paid N times the timeout budget, and the queue grew as long as the pool stayed down. Cache the failure for 30s, the empty result included. One retry goes on the clock instead of one per request, and a blip costs a single interval of stale filtering. Also bound the wait on the gate: a refresh is normally one RPC round trip, so waiters still get the real list, but a pool that is timing out no longer hands its latency to a promoted-entries request. The test counts RPC attempts rather than elapsed time. The first version measured duration and passed with the fix removed -- a refused connection fails in microseconds, so timing cannot tell the two apart. Counting attempts gives 1 with the fix and 9 without.
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Adversarial pass over my own review fixes, which turned up a regression I had just introduced. The refresh gate made the outage case worse than having no gate. On failure nothing was cached, so every request that queued behind a failing refresh woke up, re-read an empty cache, and ran its own full node-failover sweep. The Nth caller paid N times the timeout budget and the queue grew for as long as the pool stayed down — strictly worse than the unsynchronised version it replaced, which at least failed in parallel. Fixed by caching the failure for 30s, empty result included: one retry on the clock instead of one per request. Also bounded the wait on the gate, so a pool that is timing out cannot hand its latency to a promoted-entries request; a normal refresh is a single RPC round trip, so waiters still get the real list. The test I wrote for it was worthless and I only found that by trying to break it. It measured elapsed time, and port 9 refuses connections in microseconds, so eight sequential failed refreshes finished well inside the threshold — it passed with the fix removed. Rewritten to count RPC attempts via Nine attempts is the storm, measured: the first refresh plus one per queued follower. Added a second failure-path test too, since the previous set only covered the happy path: an unreachable pool with a previously-seen list falls back to that list rather than to no filtering, so a node outage is not a way for a muted account back into promoted placement. Suite 173 → 175, green. |
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Follow-up from ecency/esync-py#28, which made the moderation account's on-chain mute list apply to every waves feed the indexer serves.
Promoted entries do not go through the indexer — they are served from here. That left a paid placement as the one surface a muted account could still reach an audience through, and the most prominent one in the feed.
Change
ModerationMutesreads the list straight from chain (condenser_api.get_following ... "ignore", paged, capped) rather than from another service, so it holds even when the indexer is behind. Cached 5 minutes: the list changes only when a moderator acts on it.Degradation was the part worth designing:
The filter runs after the promoted cache is read, not before, so a new mute applies on the mute list's own refresh instead of waiting out the 5-minute promoted cache.
Verification
Full suite green, 164 → 171 tests, no new warnings:
The 7 new tests cover the parts that can silently break a feed: an empty list leaves it untouched, matching is case-insensitive, order is preserved, an entry with no author survives, filtering everything yields an empty array rather than null, and the moderation account name is pinned (a typo there would read as "nobody is muted" with no error anywhere).
Beyond the unit tests, I ran the live fetch path once against real nodes with a throwaway harness (not committed), since the RPC envelope and paging are the parts unit tests cannot reach:
That matches the account's mute list on chain exactly.
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