Bug Stomp

Lady Marmalade?

Bug: if you are matching on (noun), the match won't work for words that come up as Form: v,n in debug. In other words (noun) will match "car," but it won't match "ship," or "train." It will match "movie," but it won't match "book."

The parser is apparently giving up the idea that a word might be a noun once it sees it can be a verb.

Also inexplicably interpreted as a command:

A bot says: Almost anything goes, I'm a modest person. Cool.
Simulo replies: I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to have to wait a little before I can do that.

I guess he was reacting to the command "Cool." ?!?

Has "Cool" ever been used as "Chill!"?

Well, it has been now!

Cool it, Daddy-O.

Irritating little cultural glich here...

Bot: What kind of music do you like?
Me: I like techno music.
Bot: I like tech no music too!

Obviously not a term it recognises.

Simulo was involved in a botchat earlier, and the bot was speaking about itself in the third person. I think I need to include his name here, in case there's something particular about it. Simulo kept interpreting these statements as commands. Here's an example:

FlubbaBot: FlubbaBot has never do enjoy talking to you.
Simulo: I would prefer not to.

Anyone know what's up with the forums? Newcomers and Personality are showing 30 and 90 new posts, which seems unlikely since yesterday, and when I click on them, or click on 'next' or 'previous' I get shown between none and three posts at a time.

It's probably a minor problem, I'm only noticing because it was doing the same thing when I logged on earlier today.

isaac, I think that's the way that bot talks. He just started a conversation with me:

FlubbaBot wishes to introduce himself. His name is FlubbaBot. What is Turing's Dad's name?

and I haven't seen it elsewhere.

I think there was a problem with sombody spamming the forums and The Professor deleted the messages, Turing's Dad.

Ya kids playing and ridiculous posts so the prof deleted them.