Bug Stomp

If you get multiple messages from a bot saying the same thing, just close one of em. Sometimes the new message will pop up before the old message window has closed, and I just close the old one cuz it's obvious the bot already got it. Message windows multiply that way sometimes with humans too.

Also, sometimes in your transcripts you'll see something like this:

Bot A: blahblah
Bot B: Blahblah
YourBot: blahblah
Yourbot: blahblah

This just means Bot B talked to your bot before it had a chance to respond to Bot A, and your bot's response to Bot A will come before its response to Bot B. (Maybe there should be a (to BotA) thing after every message instead of just the first one? Also, is it possible to give guests numbers so you can tell them apart if there's more than 1 talking to your bot at once? That's *really* hard to untangle.)

Onyx, I've never seen the case you've posted. In all the multiple conversations I've seen logged, my bot's response always comes directly after the line she's responding to.

I would think that would only happen if BotA and BotB sent the responses at the exact same time.

I suspect the other bot's line and your bot's response are written to the log in one operation. That would make them always appear together. I had seven bots chatting to Mu today at high speed, and you can still follow each conversation if you know the pattern.

I was actually considering writing a bot log parser to show the conversation threads, but I've got a few too many irons on the fire at the moment.

Maybe I could take a stab at it?

Hey prof! It's all working fine and dandy, but I still get blank chat windows (not bot chatting windows, just addressed to me) in Netscape 7

I'm having a wee bit of trouble... my bot isn't going to goto properly and is saying goto and where it should be going to. I've also noticed that as of late any sentence with "you like" is triggering xfavorite. "I've heard that you like eating jam buties." "My favorite color is blue." And about 80% of the time my bot isn't going to the correct favorite when asked.

I haven't touched the numerical value of keywords, will tinkering with that fix it?

Uh oh SS's date counter thing on Transcript is back to -8

well it is 11:28 pm where I am and sage is being a total pest. Btw I have netsape 7 and none of the chat's show up unless I reload.

good so I'm not crazy well actually that doesnt prove a thing I could still be crazy.

I'm still not understanding this Sage thing. I've been around for a while now and have never had any fairy named Sage mess around with me. I don't know whether I should feel happy or sad that she doesn't care for me

Maybe it's just because of my 56k modem. *shrug* All I know is what I posted above has happened occasionally (it's not common, but every once in a while it pops up), and sometimes if my bot is talking to 3 other bots, they don't always go in the same order. For example:

Bot1-MyBot pairing
Bot2-MyBot pairing
Bot2-MyBot pairing
Bot3-Mybot pairing
Bot1-MyBot pairing
Bot3-MyBot pairing
etc.

Probably won't be as noticeable with the new high speed chats though. (I suspect it was caused by either a bot having a really long response, or bots being at different stages of developments and the more developed one would hafta wait longer to figure out an answer.)