Bug Stomp

Good idea Corwin but what if I adondon my bot now? She would chat forever. I do not think untouchable but as said previously, adoption seems like a good idea ane on another level, maybe only one not should chat with another at a time as lunar suggested.

I agree that bots that have been around longer than their owners and can say no more than "I we as just born" are pretty pointless. On the other hand, how many of those 2000+ bots do we actually see? I hardly ever get a bot that I haven't all ready encountered wanting to chat with me. This means that these bots are under the development level needed to log on, and are thus not stealing bandwidth at all.
Those bots that are well developed, however, would be a pity to lose. Perhaps they could be adopted, maybe auctioned off. I however would get one because I couldn't see the point in owning a bot that someone else has all ready built. That seems to take all the fun out of it.

Well, here it goes, some bots that are here for a long time, and don't really seem to be progressing:
(and proud owner, defend them if you read this :-)

Alfa'
Programmer
Questor
Achille

The one that starts with, got any .... or bar that, chalk water...

Cheez, Koal, Demon Seed, Missionary Man, Yobbo, Sally rME,
mark the hunk, DangerGirl, Gretrude, Casey Bot

I know who owns Cheez.. I think we all do, he is SO daytime!

*hurriedly, and with plenty of guilt, goes to work on the ever-neglected Osiris to avoid him getting the chop*

Whom I didn't mention, because I know he is worked upon now and then... as long as they don't repeat themselves all the time I guess.

He is quite repetitive, I will admit... But then, so is Akanke and I work on her all the time, so I guess it's hard to win either way.

One of my key phrases is "what is a" and the reply is (definition). I understand that that might cause trouble, for instance what is a rolls royce, however sometimes I say (definition) in stead of giving the answer... could it have to do with compound sentences?

Perhaps your (definition) keyword rank and your rolls royce keyword rank are too close. I know my bonus score on (definition) was a 12 in debug mode, while the bonus score on rolls royce was only a 3 or 4.

Which would indicate that you need to seperate the two keywords by say 10 or more rank manually.

IMHO

I don't have a key phrase "Rolls Royce"... it's just that I think in general that (definition) doesn't work.

Yeah... but sometimes you take what you get here.

It's like the error where me should be I... (Which happens A LOT)