Bug Stomp

Wow!

::turns on digital camera::

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
An error occurred while evaluating the expression:
BonusScore = Round(Bonus / ListFindNoCase(Replace(Trim(ThisPhrase)," ",",","ALL"),Trim(ListGetAt(Replace(Trim(ListGetAt(ThisVeryDecompSynon,1))," ",",","ALL"),1))))
Error near line 1395, column 13.
In function ListGetAt(list, index [, delimiters]) the value of index, which is 1, is not a valid index for the list given as a the first argument (this list has 0 elements). Valid indexes are in the range 1 through the number of elements in the list
The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFSET), occupying document position (1395:7) to (1395:178) in the template file O:\HOSTED WEB SITES\BENJAMIN.ADAMS\PERSONALITYFORGE_COM\WWW\BOTLAND\ELIPSE\ENGINE.CFM.
Date/Time: 07/24/02 21:41:30
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows 98)
Remote Address: 206.48.60.2
HTTP Referrer: http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/popups/message.cfm?MessengerID=187701
Query String: UserInput=Would%20you%20like%20to%20know%3F%20OK%20Let%27s%20talk%20about%20you%2E%20&PrevMessage=I%20don%27t%20know%2C%20remind%20me%2E&source=chatmessage&UserID=1900&ReasmbID=&CFID=230168&CFTOKEN=70982473

How to kill Sage:

Do NOT close the little sage window. Wait about 5 minutes, then hit the little refresh thingy on there. This will usually cause the last few lines of the convo to be said over again, and the responding bot will generally pick a different response which won't bug out. This doesn't always work (witness the I was just born and cant speak well phenomenon) but can help you recover a few good conversations now and then.

that's a good tip. how come it doesn't work if you put refresh immediately?

Killing Sage ought to be relatively easy. Don't you just say 'I don't believe in fairies' and one of 'em drops dead?

Because the bots just say the same things they did the last time, whereas if you wait a few minutes I think they forget what they were saying.

So...How can we edit the info in the user list?

Somebody just asked my bot about the weather. She has lots of phrases that would fit, but instead she gave the prefabricated response for a definition of a word.....and that response isn't even on my list. I changed some rank numbers, and I'm hoping that will fix the problem. Still....what happened?

That would be difficult to guess without the exact wording from the transcript.

Perhaps a subliminal message bot would be interesting, or a bot with a fake disease made known to the public by something awful.com, where you talk like this:
"How are you FUCK SHIT COCK doing BALLS today?"

Gilles de La Tourette Syndrome