Creating a cooldown system that works individually per user and not for the command itself Twitch/Node/TMI

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Hi I’ve been working on a bot and wanted to make a cooldown for the user for 10 mins if they use the command again I created this system that works as a cooldown but for all users how would I make it for only the user of the command and have it be individual.

if(message == '!joinqueue') {

    if(!block) {
        
        client.say(channel, `@${user.username}, Joined The Queue!`);
    
        queue.push(`${user.username}`);

        console.log(queue);

        block = true
        setTimeout(() => {
            block = false;
        }, (60 * 10000))
    }
    else {
        client.say(channel, `@${user.username} Please Wait Before Doing This Command Again`)
    }

It looks like you haven't tried anything. One way to do it would be to change `block` from a boolean to an array of strings, where the strings are user unique identifiers. When you want to block a user, you push that user's unique `id` into the array. When you want to check if a user is blocked, you check if the array has the `id`. And in the timeout which unsets the block, you remove the user's id from the array. — tao, Aug 23 '21 at 18:45
@tao I am generally new to Javascript I came up with a way I think maybe easier than if they are already in the queue then they cannot rejoin until they have left or have passed the first spot I am still generally confused do you have any recommendations on how I would do this — Zoren Singh, Aug 23 '21 at 19:48
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Please read [How much research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261592/how-much-research-effort-is-expected-of-stack-overflow-users) — tao, Aug 23 '21 at 21:53

tao · Answer 1 · 2021-08-23T21:57:04.940

Here's a version which would store the users inside block, (as described in my initial comment above) based on the code you've shown:

let block = [];

if(message === '!joinqueue') {
  if(!block.includes(user.username)) {
    client.say(channel, `@${user.username}, Joined The Queue!`);
    queue.push(user.username);
    block.push(user.username);
    setTimeout(() => {
        block = block.filter(u => u !== user.username);
    }, (60 * 10000))
  } else {
    client.say(channel, `@${user.username} Please Wait Before Doing This Command Again`)
  }
}

Notes:

the above will only work as expected if username is a unique user identifier; if it's not, use another field which is a unique identifier; if you don't have one, add one to each user (you could use uuid for this)
if the above code doesn't work, you'll need to provide more details about the context in which you're running it, ideally creating a mcve.
if your code is placed inside a function which gets run repeatedly (on some hook), it's important to initialize the block variable outside of that function. Otherwise you'll re-init it every time the function runs, effectively losing the current state.

Creating a cooldown system that works individually per user and not for the command itself Twitch/Node/TMI

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