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[–]ChristianSonnenkreuz 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Doing this manually? Lol no. Use this. You need to register your bot with reddit. Look up how to do it. You'll get two codes you must paste into the login line alongside your username and password.

Put this in the folder where you run your python scripts out of. Then put all the names into "users.txt" with one name per line.

The script automatically grabs the names from the text file and sends a PM. You fill in the PM subject header and body at the top of the script.

Reddit will ban your account for spam after you do this.

[–]bruker[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

will the messages be deleted once reddit bans you?

[–]ChristianSonnenkreuz 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm not sure, but the bans aren't automated. They take time. Most will see the message.

[–]bruker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

if lot of people do 20 users each it won't be a problem to message 4k people anyway, idk i think it's worth the effort to ensure that the messages won't get deleted

[–]ChristianSonnenkreuz 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

4k / 20 = 200. We only have like 25 users here now and most of them won't even do that. Let's say everyone bothers to send 10 messages: We'd need 400 active users. Since we only have 25, everyone has to send 160 messages each. Nobody's gonna do that.

I should name this because it happens somewhat often. You have a problem. I give an elegant solution. You say "nah, I'm gonna keep whining about my problem instead of taking the solution."

[–]Hadzabadza 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Reject modernity, embrace manual labour

[–]bruker[S] 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

had already made 15 handwritten letters until I realized I had no way to send it to the people on the list

[–]paranoid_android3 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

What a waste of sealing wax

[–]riozoolander 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So, will you do this? Please do if you have the expertise. Let us know if you won't. Sounds like a one time job.