src/main/java/linux/general/hackyquizbot/QuizHandler.java

@@ -20,25 +20,21 @@ public class QuizHandler {
 				Message message = user.sendMessage("Hi! I'm Hacky.\n"
 						+ "I will be sending you a bunch of multiple-choice questions. "
 						+ "You can answer by selecting one or more of the reactions on the message and confirm your selection by selecting the :white_check_mark: reaction."
-						+ " Please contact @BodgeMaster#0344 if there are any issues.\n\n"
+						+ " Please contact @BodgeMaster#0344 if there are any issues.\n"
+						+ "\n"
 						+ "Select the :white_check_mark: reaction to continue.").get();
 				message.addReaction(EmojiParser.parseToUnicode(":white_check_mark:"));
 				message.addReactionAddListener(event -> {
-					// HACK: Testing for an exception to find out whether the event was caused by a
+					System.err.println("We get to here. #1");
-					// user or by the bot itself because reactions added by the bot allow to check
+					User test = event.getUser().get(); //test to see if this throws an exception
-					// for user where reactions added by actual users don’t.
+					System.err.println("We get to here. #2");
-					try {
+					System.err.println("Got an event from "+Long.toString(event.getUser().get().getId())); //this throws an exception - why?
-						if (!event.getUser().get().isYourself() && event.getReaction().get().getEmoji()
+					System.err.println("We get to here. #3");
-								.equalsEmoji(EmojiParser.parseToUnicode(":white_check_mark:"))) {
+					if (event.getUser().get().getId()!=Main.getUserID() && event.getReaction().get().getEmoji().equalsEmoji(EmojiParser.parseToUnicode(":white_check_mark:"))) {
-							event.getMessage().get().getChannel().sendMessage(
+						event.getMessage().get().getChannel().sendMessage("test");
-									"This should not work. If you ever see this message, please inform @BodgeMaster#0344 that there is more to this arbitrary limitation in the Discord API than expected.");
-						}
-					} catch (Exception e) {
-						System.err.println("Assuming the reaction event was caused by the user...");
-						System.err.println("User ID: "+this.user.getIdAsString()); //test if we can get the user ID that way
-					}
 						//TODO: trigger question dispatch
 						//TODO: remove ReactionAddListener
+					}
 				});
 			} catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
 				// TODO Auto-generated catch block