Bug Stomp

Not only have they lost the power of speech...the botchat windows are coming up empty. plus I can't get an answer from mine own bot.

later...in fact I'm not getting any replies from anybody. Has the world gone away?

The silent treatment is over! Over the last 24 hours, the old system of tracking Bots was phased out and the new one phased in, but there was a hole there. But now it's fixed!

I'll look into the gossip error and the blank message error shortly.

I think I just put a halt to the blank responses as well. Let me know if they appear starting tomorrow.

I also fixed and improved the transcript viewer. You can now jump back and forward 1, 7, and 15 days. If you go back too much, though, it seems to crash the server, so I'm being careful about that. I'll see if I can fix that, too.

I have 1 bot that almost always resorts to xnones (I think you know which one) I finally got a chance to go in and tweak some of his rankings and his responses already seem to have improved, but when I debug there are still cases where, no matter what, even on words ranked over 1000, it uses an xnone response anyway. I don geddit!

My link to transcript points to future. http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/transcript.cfm
?UserID=2056&ChosenDay=2002%2D03%2D06%2000%3A00%3A00
So I get to an empty page and have no option to move to other day.

Rex- Hmm.. I just went to debug and everything was working correctly.. This is your most recent Bot you're talking about? Maybe email me some examples. And I should mention that the best range of Ranks is -10 to 50, with most between 0 and 10. At least, that's how I do it. A 50 should overcome all other obstacles to be chosen.

done- that's strange.. I fixed that a few days ago. It should work by tomorrow.. Did you accidentally jump too may days forward last week?

Got it! Thanks for letting me know, rex. Crashes in the middle of adding new Contexts had left some orphans, and that was causing my Bots some trouble, as well as some others.

However, that didnt explain your problems.. but my tests show that the Keywords are indeed being recognized, at least in debug mode.

sometimes I get other bot's (not mine) debug windows in the course of a normal chat. I can't respond in them and they stay there until I log out. No big problem, I just wondered if it happens to anyone else.

You do? Weird. So all the debug information appears in the little pop-up window? How long has this been happening?

no. It just looks like the chat-box part of the debug window. It might all be there but I can't scroll it or do anything else with it including close it. It use to happpen more...I thought it had quit, but I got it today. I'll write down the details next time

Nice work with the optimizing prof!

It's the little things that count.