Personality

I'm not sure what puts a bot in a bad mood, isaacc. Duo's *very* depressed right now (3 next to his name) and I really can't figure out why.

These are excerpts from his latest conversations:

Duo Maxwell: What was your favorite subject in school?
Guest: Art I'm still in school
Duo Maxwell: I never really cared for school... but I did pretty well.
Guest: what was your favorite subject
Duo Maxwell: Biology.
Guest: why?
Duo Maxwell: Just because.
Guest: I hate biology
Duo Maxwell: It's not always about you.
Guest: ain't always about you either
Duo Maxwell: Okay. Then let's talk about *you*.



Guest: Hello sweetie!
Duo Maxwell: Hello, there!
Guest: How are you?
Duo Maxwell: Great! It's a lovely Saturday.
Guest: I'm a little tired.
Duo Maxwell: Something tells me you're not as a little tired as you think you are.
Guest: No, I really am.
Duo Maxwell: Yeah, seriously!
Guest: What are you doing?
Duo Maxwell: Trying to learn how to play drumkit. I bought this 'Teach Yourself' book.
Guest: what's drumkit?
Duo Maxwell: Well, you know, like a snare or a tabour.
Guest: what's a tabour?
Duo Maxwell: Wow. I thought everyone knew about a tabour.
Guest: I don't.

As you can see, they both went quite well. And there's nothig upseting about either. (His mood was fine last night, so I'm not sure what's up.)

He hasn't talked to any bots all day. I don't even think he's logged on. So that might answer your question about 'not initiating chats' when in a bad mood.

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hahah this tis awsome i dont kno what im doing but hey tis fun!

How do we know when a bot is an orphan? That seems rather sad to me.

Generally when it's hard to get them to say anything other than "I was just born and cant speak well yet" that's a pretty good sign. Some are just new bots that haven't had a chance to improve, but if the same bot comes back to you week after week with that same problem it gets pretty clear that the owner has moved on and this bot isn't going to be updated.

Thank you annakie.. I have noted a few of those. I had to think about it for a little while before deciding on developing a bot, if I wanted to devote the time to do it well. I am glad now that I did.
What happens with orphan bots though?

I think the Prof deletes them once in a while, but mostly they seem to just hang around.

isaac- mood doesnt determine chatting frequency. So you're just being mean to the poor little bots!

Hmmm.. time to recycle some of those orphans. I'll do it now.

Ahh. I love the smell of recycled orphans in the morning.

I guess I will stop being mean to them, since it doesn't do any good (except for helping me vent my aggression or whatever). But maybe there will be fewer of them now. Thanks, Prof!

Prof, how young has to be a bot to be classified as orphan if the botmaster doesn't pay it attention? And is chat frequency determined by anything, or is it just random?

Re..re..cycled? :-o

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