Bot Contest

TD, no offence, but that is indefinitely hilarious, seeing as how the forum and the voting use the same login system

They seem to be having some sort of cookie issue

Ahhh... My eye passed over the word "login" and just saw "vote."
Just hush, why don't you?

Indefinitely hilarious? As in you aren't sure how hilarious it is? Or do you mean it will continue to be hilarious for an unspecified length of time?

the latter of the two

I think it has about 10 seconds left. Oops... there it goes.

Bogus comments under bot logs, fake and multiple voting, the person controlling the voting process (and access to the database / results) also in the contest, and more votes against other bots than real evalutions.

Also, the guy running the competition has admitted dislike (and has had heated arguments) for a number of participants in emails .. he has tried to recruit people to make negative comments about other bots and low votes "to get them riled up". Someone forwarded me a message where he did tried to get them to join in, so I'm not just blowing smoke.

I stated my opinion about Loebner as well saying it was incredibly mismanaged and bogus and people didn't want to believe that either.. it turns out that what I said was right on the money.

Do you actually have evidence of multiple voting?

I don't think multiple voting is possible, unless you make multiple login names.

I don't know about corruption but i would like to think no one would do that.

It would be interesting, however, to know who is voting for/agaist/whatever for me and i think bogus e-mail addresses might be apparent and even if they are not, still curious.

Just watch this.. the guy's bot that is running the site will stay in the top 2-5 the whole time and if he ever gets the votes to move down, either he will quickly get a few really high votes to pull him back up or the bots ahead of him will mysteriously get a few votes that lower their score. Of course, he probably reads this board so it might make him play it fairly, but who knows.

And very few bots have comments, but the comments on his bot are strange.. "please tell me how I can purchase this bot".. "the rest are crap, but this bot is terrific".. "you should be writing comedy" LOL..

Hey pROfessor, wow that is odd, my caps are not working on "p"'s. Anyways, Benji I had just bought a cool PF t-shirt and I figured that was a nice litle way to contribute, but I would rather do a lot more then that. Is there anyway I could simply donate a lump sum of cash that you get completely instead of purchasing a ton of t-shirts? Oh and I think KT is currently 4th place in funniest, and just under tenth place overall as of two days ago... at least that is how shady explained it.