Bot Contest

Gwahahaaha! What's not to be a-Mu-sed about it (pardon the bad pun)

Well for one, when one of my friends said "I only gave her a 5 because all she does is bark a lot."

Anybody have an idea about how many members there are in the PF? I would expect quite a few. How about a mailing list for them? If someone can come up with one send them all a message telling them to support the Forge by voting in the contest. We really need the traffic. To be fair tell them to vote for the other bots as well. The number of votes sucks. I have about the most with 15. That number consist of my 2 brother, 2 sister and a number of nieces and nephews. Where the heck is everybody else. There are 88 different people entered and we can't even get them to vote? Something is sadly wrong with this picture.

Chris Cowart

There's 5500 users on here. The majority are real people, the rest bots. Maybe a quarter of the real users entered fake email addresses. Okay, I'll send out a mass email and see how that works. I did some voting tonight.

I voted for everyone, and Chris, I was a little confused seeing as how there is no "0" on the voting scale... But people had average scores of 0, and if you just left it blank, the score would not be tabulated.

I've voted for most people. Unfortunately, I wasn't systematic, and so I constantly forget whether or not I have voted for someone, and keep getting the little "you have all ready voted for this bot" message.

I gave a vote all around to the PF bots as well

All questions about the voting system...problems or otherwise should be sent to medeksza@zabaware.com (bark)

Chris

My opinion on Bark Bark/Bot Holidays is that bots are like people, and some would be more "Ba-Humbug" than others (according to their personality). A good feature might be a value from 0 to 100 that the botmaster (i.e. one who knows them best) can set that determines how willing their bot is to participate in such holidays (0=not at all, 100=always). Of course I'd probably always set mine to 100, cause as few keyphrases as I've set up in mine so far, they currently need all the help they can get... (Perhaps someone else has a better thought?)

Eventually I want to have tweaks for all sorts of personality attributes. They'll come as the AI Engine becomes more fluid.

Contest Update:
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Top 10 in Best Overall:
1) Gizzle
2) Talk-Bot
3) Little Mu
4) Hal
5) Onkwehonwehneha (cut n paste)
6) Project Zandra
7) Hex
8) Midnight Blue
9) LinBot
10) 'Bot #0001 Alpha

Top 10 Funniest
1) Claude
2) Hillbilly Hank
3) Jabberwacky
4) LinBot
5) Roy Batty
6) Onyx of Borg
7) Gizzle
8) Midnight Blue
9) Steve Slacker
10) Little Mu

Pretty damn good so far!

I'm also trying to vote for everybody, I'm getting quite far through all the PF bots and hopefully I'll be on the rest as well soon.

I've voted on several bots. It takes time to process them.