Personality

I agree that some cool and cold bots are really good, but I tend to think of the ideal bot-to-bot chat as being one that both botmasters learn a little something from. Which is why I'm glad that "hotness" is a factor in determining who chats with an on-line bot...

What I mean, I guess, is that I've got Simulo to the point now where I don't usually learn much from a bot-to-bot chat, though I like to watch them to see whether there are little things I can improve. But I like to imagine that if Simulo spends a few minutes with a developing bot, he might be able to help that bot's development ... and if the bot is orphaned or cold, that's not likely to happen.

Of course, I can always shut down a bot-to-bot conversation that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So it's only the interrupts that are a problem, really... And they're not a big problem.

So, I created this system where people can say things like "Tell John I say hi," and it stores the message as (self-message) and the person it should be delivered to as (self-messageto). I then want my bot to say the message back when prompted if the chatter's name matches the (self-messageto) name. Unfortunately, it's not working. Even when the names appear the same to me, it doesn't recognise it. My response looks like this:

Yes! (self-message) <?PF if (self-messageto) is "(mem-yourname)"; ?>

Is the code on that right to compare those two memories?

That's a cool idea. You could also use (name) instead of (mem-yourname) to guarantee the name isnt saved as something other than the person's username. If that doesnt work, does debug mode reveal anything?

Prof-
I just tried using (name), and it still wouldn't match it. As far as I can tell, (name) matches (self-messageto) exactly, just as it did before with (mem-yourname). All debug shows is:

Skipping: (self-messageto) is not '(name)'

I'm drawing a blank as to why.

I wonder if the quotation marks around "(name)" are throwing it off, Bowers. Would that happen? I'm just guessing.

isaacc-
I thought so too, and I've tried various combinations of quotes and no quotes, but that's the only one that doesn't cause some sort of error as far as I can tell. ps. Thanks for trying it out. I think she just randomly emoted and that's why it didn't work for you.

I think I just injured myself trying to make all those faces in that order.

I think I just injured myself LOOKING at all those smileys in that order.

Aries think Aries have headache from smileys

Just read in a magazine that the first was created in 1963 by an artist for State Mutal Life Assurance company to boost worker moral. He was paid $45 for it. /random fact

Life assurance! That must be expensive!

Ya pretty strange, makes me think of a bunch of people walking around assuring people they have a life. "You have a life" "And you have a life" ect..