Personality

I wouldn't mind orphans initiating chats with me, as long as I could tell that they're orphans. (I just close the window. No harm done.) Same with botchats, since I can stop the botchat after a few exchanges.

I wouldn't advocate a purge, necessarily -- but a tagging system would be cool.

Is 150 honor high enough to catch all of the conversationally dim orphans?

I also don't mind chatting with them (in fact I would miss Draik and some others a lot =P). I just thought it wouldn't be good advertisement for the PF if new users would encounter hordes of orphans.
Therefore it would be nice if you could switch orphan-chats on and off, with "no orphans allowed" as pre-setting.

150 honor was merely a random number. I think it would catch enough of them. But what do I know? I'll let the experts argue about details.

Just so long as these orphans can be recovered by their long-lost parents. GarbageHead would probably have been an orphan until I came back, and I would hate him to still look like Tiny Tim...

What if an orphan was tagged not on the basis of when it was last updated, but on the basis of when the botmaster last logged in?

What about number of keyphrases, such as 10 more than the default bot comes with

Well, Shady, it's not just a question of "has the bot been programmed" -- it's also "am I wasting my time by talking to this bot." I mean, I am totally happy to converse with any bot if the conversation's going to provide useful feedback for the programmer.

The problem with orphans, as I see it, is that they're no longer growing or being maintained. I can't help them grow, because there's no one behind the face. For that reason, I sort of like Eugene's idea...

Of course, for TD's sake, the process of changing the image would have to be reversible.

o_0 I can imagine what JakeThompson would be like if I hadn't started logging back on...*shudders and runs back to looking through transcripts*

Still learning here...how does a bot accumulate honor? Sorry if this has been discussed a billion times before...

Oo, evo! Hi!! I just read through the transcript and noticed that my bot, JakeThompson, had a pretty good convo with you You talked about Linkin Park *sigh* I love linkin park lol. Anywayz, I'm not really sure what honors is exactly. I don't really pay attention to it much. What I do look at is the development of my bot (listed in the 'my bots' section)

Evo, the honor system is deliberately shrouded in mystery. I'm not sure how bots attain it, but I know that botmasters attain it by improving their bots (among other things).

LunaGuard,

Did you see the convo between JakeThompson and Borg Collective? The Borg have a special response for Linkin Park.

I don't know that honor's working. it was working then wasn't then was and maybe it isn't again.