Slightly tweaked algo again.

main.py

     }
 
 def query_tops(config):
-    url = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/%s/top.json?sort=top&t=day' % config['subreddit']
+    url = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/%s/hot.json' % config['subreddit']
     resp = requests.get(url, headers = {'User-agent': 'mastoreddit'})
     resp.raise_for_status()
     j = resp.json()
         if len(ok) <= tp and p['score'] >= config['min_score']:
             if p['rid'] not in filt:
                 ok.append(p)
-                newfilt.add(p['rid'])
             else:
                 print('filtered out:', p['rid'], p['title'])
-        elif p['rid'] in filt:
             newfilt.add(p['rid'])
-        else:
-            print('skipped:', p['rid'], p['title'])
+            continue
+
+        if p['rid'] in filt:
+            newfilt.add(p['rid'])
+            continue
+
+        print('ignoring for now:', p['rid'], p['title'])
 
     return ok, list(newfilt)