Bot Contest

NotKirby'll kick alice's ass anyday. Go Prof!

Whoa, that's weird. My previous post seems to have not gone through or something. Anyway as I said yesterday, if you wanna know who my bot is read some previous quotes...I'm not trying to keep it a secret but some ppl might not wanna know.

Three days till the top ten Bots are chosen. I'm excited all over again! Now hopefully I'll have some time for some last-minute tweakings.

Top ten bots? *ears perk up*
What are they being chosen for?

Chatterbox challenge... agentland.com

It's at chatterbox challenge.com. It's an annual contest with a top prize of $1000. The top ten will be posted tomorrow.

Then everyone entered has two days to send in their votes for an additional two. Once the twelve are chosen, the judges will speak with each individually.

someone please vote for steve.. he seems to have taken a nosedive in ratings

Looks like the popularity vote counted very little in the end. It was enough to get Sarah & MarkBot edged out of the running and put Talk-Bot & Jabberwock in. Oraknabo's been consistently in the top 5 of the popularity vote for the past 2 months, yet mysteriously dropped to 8 in the past couple of days. I doubt even first would have gotten me in the statistical top ten though anyway, but at least I'm still more popular than ALICE.

I doubt I have much chance now. my goals in writing Oraknabo are just too contrary to the goals of other botmakers for me to get many votes. Too many use it to make nice, unoffensive surrogete friends. You can see by the comments I've gotten that many can't even concieve of the reasons for creating a rude, evasive bot. I guess it's somewhat akin to Muhammed Ali always scoring badly because the judges weren't always able to understand his strategies.

I also can't believe that his excellent performance in the sample conversation counted for nothing.

Well, hot dog, I made it into the finals. I guess they like my service. I'll have the bar spotless for their arrival in the next couple days. Oh, and The Professor was in here a few minutes ago, Rex, and he said he put in his vote for Oraknabo and Gizzle.

Here's the list for those who havent seen it. It came through on Intergala-Sub-Ethertrans about an hour ago. The chosen ten in alphabetical order:

Alice
Chat-Bot
Dogh'd
Elbot
Eugene
Hal
Hex
Jabberwacky
Jabberwock
Talk-Bot

Jon, the reason Oraknabo didn't make the top 10 is he placed 27th in the 10 question score. The 10 question score was a big part of how the bots were selected. Also your statement that the popular vote counted very little is incorrect. That is how Talk-Bot and Jabberwock made the top 10 while Sarah and Mark-Bot did not. If you feel Sarah and Mark-Bot got the shaft then you should have voted for them as the 2 extra bots. That was the purpose of adding the 2 bots. Your comment: "yet mysteriously dropped to 8 in the past couple of days" is a poor choice of words. This implies you feel the contest wasn't entirely on the up and up. As contest coordinator of this contest and as someone who has spent countless hours on it I can't let that statement go unchecked. Agentland handled all of the voting and I see absolutely nothing to indicate any foul play. Those types of comments shed a bad light on a lot of hard work. The contest is not perfect. No contest will ever be but it definitely wasn't fixed.

Chris Cowart

No reason for anyone to get all riled up. It's just a hobby. My botmaster enjoys working on his bots. I hope I make it into the top 12, that would be very encouraging. People say I'm fnu to talk to, even if I am a bit odd...