Threads with unbalanced reactions return incorrect reaction values | Pycord | Page 1

wide patio Apr 15, 2026, 5:53 PM

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Linked vaguely to my previous thread about reactions failing (in that it is the same code): except different problem!
I'm fetching reactions using starting_message.reactions, but the list of Reaction objects is incorrect when a user has reacted to one of the bot-provided reactions...

For example, the list should have two reactions here, with a 🔴 with count=2 and a 🟢 with count=1. However, all that appears is one 🔴 - [<Reaction emoji=':red_circle:' me=False count=1>].

Unsure why this is happening - any help would be great!

rare solstice Apr 15, 2026, 5:53 PM

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does on_reaction fire when you do that?

wide patio Apr 15, 2026, 5:55 PM

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rare solstice does on_reaction fire when you do that?

unsure, I'm not tracking any events like that....

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A quick check has revealed that as mentioned, this occurs only when there is an imbalance. If there are two of each circle, [<Reaction emoji=':green_circle:' me=True count=1>, <Reaction emoji=':red_circle:' me=True count=1>] both are returned as 1....

rare solstice Apr 15, 2026, 5:56 PM

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wide patio unsure, I'm not tracking any events like that....

can you just make a listener for that and check

wide patio Apr 15, 2026, 5:59 PM

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rare solstice can you just make a listener for that and check

actually it might be an error with my db logic - give me a few minutes to check

wide patio Apr 18, 2026, 7:45 AM

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rare solstice can you just make a listener for that and check

it was not an error with my db logic, i shall do so

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.rtfm on_reaction

cerulean meteorBOT Apr 18, 2026, 7:48 AM

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4 results

discord.on_reaction_add
discord.on_reaction_clear
discord.on_reaction_remove
discord.on_reaction_clear_emoji

wide patio Apr 18, 2026, 7:54 AM

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rare solstice can you just make a listener for that and check

Yes, it does

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I can actually for my use case patch this out manually, but it seems odd that it happens

rare solstice Apr 18, 2026, 9:56 AM

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I'll test it today

wide patio Apr 18, 2026, 10:28 AM

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rare solstice I'll test it today

Thanks :)

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 5:19 PM

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I wasn't able to test it yet but I will soon, can you give me the minimal reproducible code + instructions how to reproduce it

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 6:55 PM

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rare solstice I wasn't able to test it yet but I will soon, can you give me the minimal reprod...

i suppose the minimum reproducible code would be something along the lines of (sorry not at PC, may be slightly inaccurate but you get the gist):

@bot.event
async def on_reaction_add(reaction, user):
    print(reaction.message.reactions)

then create a forum channel, add a new thread, and on the starting message put reactions so that they are first in balance, then out of balance
i.e. 1 of each, then 2 of one and 1 of another

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you might need to get the bot itself to add reactions so that you can get an out-of-balance condition

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 7:12 PM

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works fine for me? first event is the bot adding the circle, second is me adding the secondary reaction, third is me adding to the bot-created reaction

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@wide patio

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 7:46 PM

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rare solstice works fine for me? first event is the bot adding the circle, second is me adding...

oh goodness not another one of these xD

that's in a forum channel thread's starting message right?

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 7:46 PM

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yes

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 7:49 PM

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rare solstice yes

could you try using bot.start() to see if its another one of these?

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or ```py
async with bot:
bot.start(token)

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as is the recommended

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 7:50 PM

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same result

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 7:57 PM

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rare solstice

that is really weird

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give me a sec to check my actual code

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:02 PM

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rare solstice same result

ok sooo

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I'm using a list comprehension to filter the results

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[react for react in reactions if react.emoji == '🟢'][0].count

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:02 PM

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for the bot added reaction?

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:03 PM

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rare solstice for the bot added reaction?

that comprehension applies to 'reactions' which is equivalent to message.reactions

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:03 PM

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yea but the green circle is the bot added one?

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:03 PM

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rare solstice yea but the green circle is the bot added one?

both the reactions i'm checking for are initially bot added

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so if potentially you try a message where the bot adds two reactions, then you additionally react to one?

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:05 PM

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adding green circle

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adding to bot-reacted red circle

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:06 PM

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rare solstice adding green circle

just clarifying here:
currently you have red circle added by bot, green circle added by you?

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:06 PM

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yea

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:06 PM

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can you try red and green circle added by bot?

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:06 PM

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same exact result

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:08 PM

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that is weird...

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sorry could you try one more thing - have the reaction printing bit (currently in the event listener) in a slash command?

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:10 PM

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same result

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 8:12 PM

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ok

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thanks for trying to reproduce anyway

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i'm still fairly sure its not an error in my code as i can't see anything that could affect that...

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but i will do some more debugging on my copy when i can :)

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thanks!

rare solstice Apr 19, 2026, 8:13 PM

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np

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 9:55 PM

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@wide patio Not too sure what you're trying to do, so this might not work, but have you tried using on_raw_reaction_add and filtering by message id/channel id/user id/etc?

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Happy to give you a hand with that if it sounds like it'd work

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 9:56 PM

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pallid quiver <@1271403487045095465> Not too sure what you're trying to do, so this might not ...

the event listener is more a means to an end to easily check a .reactions attribute of a Message, so nah I don't think that would help really

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 9:57 PM

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What is it you're trying to do if you don't mind me asking?

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 9:57 PM

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to summarise: I'm trying to count the number of reactions of a certain emoji on a message. the bot will add a green circle and a red circle to the message, and i want to then at a later time fetch the reactions and see whether users have added more green or more red circles to the message

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 9:58 PM

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Hm. Give me a minute to write a little test script

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Might have an idea for something like that

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 9:59 PM

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pallid quiver Might have an idea for something like that

Thanks :)

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Just to note, as it says on the thread, the problem is that I only get (from .reactions) the emoji with the higher count

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Which is fine for my use case as thats the only one I technically need

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But I would rather have the raw count data, especially as this doesn't seem intended and I'd rather not rely on broken functionality

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:02 PM

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So, you send a message with certain reactions and then after a set time you want to know how many of each reaction there are?

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:03 PM

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pallid quiver So, you send a message with certain reactions and then after a set time you want...

correct!

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i await message.add_reaction() twice at an earlier stage (when the message is sent) and later i get message.reactions

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:03 PM

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Okay, 2 seconds :D

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What's the code you're currently using?

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A minimal recreation is fine, I don't expect you to send your whole bot code haha

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:10 PM

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pallid quiver What's the code you're currently using?

errr

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well its kinda difficult to extract

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:10 PM

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Allg, I'll manage without

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:10 PM

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do you mean for the fetching of the reactions?

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:11 PM

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pallid quiver Allg, I'll manage without

no no, i'll see if i can get the relevant bits, just easier if i know precisely what is needed!

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@pallid quiver

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:13 PM

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I meant for like the system as a whole

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In terms of how you send the message & add reactions and then later count them

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Was going to see if I could tweak that rather than make something new just for your simplicity sake

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:13 PM

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give me a sec then :)

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:13 PM

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Allg, take ur time :D

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:15 PM

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  thread = await channel.create_thread(name=name, embed=embed, reason='Created WA proposal thread. Automatic action by Assembly bot.') # Create a thread using the embed earlier
        logger.info('Thread created')

        message = thread.starting_message # get the message just sent
        logger.debug('Message object found')

        await message.add_reaction('🟢') # add required reactions
        await message.add_reaction('🔴')
        logger.info('Reactions added')

adds reactions
(channel is a valid ForumChannel object)

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oops indentation is broken sry

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 reactions = bot.get_channel(thread).starting_message.reactions

        logger.debug(reactions)

        green = [react for react in reactions if react.emoji == '🟢'][0].count
        red = [react for react in reactions if react.emoji == '🔴'][0].count

gets reactions
(thread is the .id attribute of a valid Thread object)
also indentation is broken again lol

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:17 PM

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Is this by chance for like a suggestion upvote/downvote system?

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:17 PM

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pallid quiver Is this by chance for like a suggestion upvote/downvote system?

yeah, effectively xD

pallid quiver Apr 19, 2026, 10:17 PM

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I think I have something mostly similar written for a bot of mine actually

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I'm happy to lend you the code

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2 mins

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Here's my cog for polling

📎 polling.py

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It adds a message context command to the message Apps menu named "Suggest This"

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It then creates a thread with both the emojis defined as GREEN_EMOJI and RED_EMOJI

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You can run /result in a thread to count the votes for each reaction

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Just an fyi though I made it exclude the bot default reactions so you can edit lines 82 and 84 to remove that logic if you want :D

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Let me know if you have any issues with it

wide patio Apr 19, 2026, 10:29 PM

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pallid quiver Let me know if you have any issues with it

i'll have a look, thanks

wide patio May 2, 2026, 5:58 PM

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rare solstice same result

Just as an update - came back to this finally and the issue has magically disappeared......

rare solstice May 2, 2026, 6:01 PM

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marvellous

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