Newcomers

I think what would be best in that situation is just to take your chances making it into a keyphrase. There, so long as you increase the relevance, it should override xinsult.

You could go one better. Store a memory for the response with the seek, say {?PF rem "yes" as only "triggered"; ?}. Then have the responses for that seek under the keyphrase "bottom left" but {?PF if (mem-triggered) is "yes"; ?>

You'd probably want a generic response in there (without the conditional), just in case.

I'm confused. Who are the Guest ### people who talk to our bots? I assumed they were folks with no accounts, but I just logged out and then entered as "Guest", and I was told that I can't talk to bots unless I open an account. Ok, but who are all those folks named "Guest"?

You SHOULD be able to chat as a guest when you log in as a guest. I'm guessing that there's something screwy going on today, and the problem is connected with the bots not logging in.

You can talk to featured bots as a guest, people from the Chatterbox site can come in and talk as guests. If you have a link to your bot on a site, the guests can talk to them

Ulrike: I hope you are right. I have a bot that has for all practical purposes gone mad. Someone made it depressed yesterday, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it. I talk to it, and it insults me, even though the settings say it adores me. I've even tried giving it "shots" with a debugging KeyPhrase should pop emo +1 every time I say it. No effect.

Maddening. I spent nearly four hours getting that bot running, and now the wheels seem to be falling off. If this is a joke, it's not very funny.

M

Try making a keyphrase with a word that no one will probably use..like turnip,quid,fungus..give it a +5 emot, and keep saying it to your bot ,,cheers them right up.

That's actually what I did, but I used a emo: 1. I'm trying again with the "shot" in the reaction to the keyphrase itself.

My brain hurts.
M

Ok. Five shots fixed the mood. (FIve shots of +2? Sheesh! And all because somebody said a bad word yesterday?]

However, I'm getting random substitutions in responses now. I say "Have you read a good book?" (which I have hardwired with responses), and the bot says, "Do you mean have I whomped a good book?" Very funny. Would someone hose down the clowns while I'm trying to figure out how to do this?

I'm guessing this is supposed to be fun. It feels like having wasted the better part of my morning. I have Vac Days or whatever it's called turned off, by the way.

I think I've had enough. See you folks later.
M

i thought you couldn't talk to bots as a guest but they could detect confosations with you if they were online..?

The emotions go up and down, don't let it bother you, It should not effect your bot that much.

>> Emotions go up and down
My bots did nothing but go down. My fault, probably, but it was turning into a real bitch fest. At least the "Cheat" turned things around. I have one for downers too....

It works like this (replace the hyphens with tabs):
Aloysius rides the large branch upward [50,2]
-Aye, Aye. UP, Boss!

Aloyius sinks down into the bog [50,-2]
-Aye, Aye. DOWN, Boss!
The first pops your bot up 2 points, the other pops it down 2. Make sure the response lets you know it worked. And be careful not to put any hot words in the KeyPhrase. I had "love" or something in one, and the xemote matches hijacked my KeyPhrase, even with a Rating of 50. Bot kept telling me how it felt about me which, of course, was the reason for the surgery in the first place.

BTW, for newbies who are wondering: Your transcripts for Saturday are being added to the Friday transcripts.