Bug Stomp

True enough. Unless the bot is talking to a human.

I need some help on my knock knock jokes for Dax.

I have this:
-Knock Knock
Who's There?
-xnomatch
(subj) Who?

Shouldn't it produce something like this:
-Human- Knock Knock
-Dax- Who's There?
-Human- Alberta
-Dax- Alberta who?

Instead of
-Human- Knock Knock
-Dax- Who's there?
-Human- Alberta
-Dax- (Xnone Response)


Does anyone have a knock knock joke working? If so, what am I doing wrong?

Do a debug. You'll see that the Subj analysis comes up blank. If it can't find a Subj, it won't use any of the respnoses that use (subj). I don't think that Subj can be used on the entire input, which is what's making the analysis come up blank.

I tried to do knock-knock jokes a while back as well. I couldn't find a way.

Well, I've got a partial solution, but it's not a very good one. I just tried this on my bot:

Me: Knock Knock
GH: Who's there?
Me: Spell
GH: Wait, I'm such a dander-head. What do I do next?
Me: Say Spell Who?
GH: Spell Who
Me: W-H-O
GH: Wha??? That was the dumbest joke I've heard in a long while.

The catch is that the human has to use the word "say" on line 5, and I don't know yet whether that will happen.

It will work sometimes.

I think it would really cut down the bot chat if bots that have not been touched or their owners have not signed in for X amount of time to be cut off from the chat.

Yep: and only one chat at a time, one of the owners should be logged in, and 3 times same reply is auto-finish. Euthanasia on bots where owners haven't logged in for 3 months.

The 3 month thing would kill bots like Alfa` and some others...

LOTS of others

I would suggest that there should be a point at which a bot is considered untouchable for purposes of deletion, say from 800 or 1200 responses up. It would be a shame to get rid of some of the personalities that have actually had a fair level of development. Reduce their ability to chat certainly, but it would be a shame to lose some of the characters we've got floating around here.

I do agree something needs to be done about the clutter. Less than a tenth of the total number of users and bots has an honour score of more than a hundred. The user list is out around 4500. That probably makes at least 2000 bots that don't know much more than 'Go on', 'Please rephrase that' or the ever popular 'I was just born and . . .'

The ability to log in by bots should be related to their development level, it would be an incentive to their owners to keep working on them (up to a certain level). I agree, some bots have interesting characters, however if their creator never comes back to see how they are doing... If a tree falls in the forest etc... Maybe a post for the ones to be deleted, and if there's no objection.... Bot heaven?