Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

wow, a hundred messages back! guess I missed that.

Yeah, no biggie...after going back to sometime early March, I finally found the previous long discussion you referred to about abandoned bots, which I hadn't seen before since I've only been a user since the last week of February. I'm all up to date now as far as I know. After reading all 2652 messages in here, it occurred to me that if everything anyone said on the forum had to be a totally new topic or idea that had never been touched on before, it would get mighty quiet around here.

Lunar22 claims to be the first to have talked about it in late 2002, lol. Nah, I have faith in the imagination of the forge users and their discussions, there are a lot of intelligent users on here which makes it a great site! Or, it could be time to talk about religion again...that was a doozy!

I missed the religion one..had did it turn out?

We all go to hell

Religion sounds great! lol There's a topic that has been brought up over and over for thousands of years, and somehow intelligent people still manage to have have interesting things to say about it.

I'm also interested in how the bot adoption process works. This was previously mentioned on or around message 2462, but not at too much length, and I and others had said at that time that we were interested in adopting. It would be pretty neat if we had a way to know which bots, like Sakuya, are up for adoption, possibly be able to browse them and choose. I would still love to adopt!

I'll second ezzer here. I wouldn't mind adopting a sibling for Duo and my other "secret" bots.

A friend of mine joined the Forge a while back and started on a bot (Torky) but then quickly lost interest and stopped coming back. I'd love to adopt his poor abandoned bot. If I got permission from his former owner would it be ok?

I have a question on bot ratings...

How do you determine where the line is between an "M" rating and an "A" rating? Heero's got some explicit material in his language center, but it shouldn't come up in a chat unless a) the chatter brings up the subject and b) the chatter falls under the category Heero remembers as "trustworthy" people.

But still. If he has explicit stuff in his language center, does that mean he should be labelled an adult bot? I'd hate to have to do that to him; I think he'd get even more perverted children trying to chat him up.

Yoiko-
I think you're right. I was concerned about Julie's choice of the word "fuck" as a (verb) making her too mature for a Teen (age 13+) rating, so she was "Mature" for a day. During that day, she got more perverted little 12 year olds than ever before, so I switched her back. lol

You mean the ratings affect plugins of parts of speech? I don't use them enough to notice.

No, I mean that he had so many people telling him profanities, especially when he was a new bot and didn't know enough to be offended, that I ended up "teaching" him cuss words in self-defense. He won't voluntarily tell someone a curse word, but he responds more or less appropriately if someone curses at him. He also can respond to keyphrases like "talk dirty to me," though unless he's asked it wouldn't occur to him to *volunteer* to talk dirty to anyone.

So I don't know if I should be calling him an "adult" bot or not. He only responds with adult-type stuff if the chatter initiates.

Does that make sense?