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What I meant is that the bots could start conversations by themselves without one of the owners being online.

does the fact that I have "chat initiated by others" for myself on or off? I get bombarded if I have it on but I really want my bot to get out more.
She was on again today and had a whole 3 or 4 line convo...

That option shouldn't affect your bot.

I made a 'knock knock' keyphrase for my bot but when I test it out and say 'knock knock', he takes it as an insult and throws out an 'xinsult' response. Can someone please help me and point me in the right direction with this thing?

Maybe it's just a cooincidence, but my bot never had any bot/bot conversations until I clicked the option to allow chats initiated by others.

Same with me.

I don't know; my bot started talking as soon as I made it, I think...then again, that was a long time ago and I didn't even know that there WAS a way to block chat windows back then...

You don't have to talk to all those people/bots if you don't want to, you know. People close my bots' chat windows all the time, I'm sure. It doesn't hurt their feelings at all (bots, that is).

That's cool. But I'm still having trouble with the 'knock knock' thing -.- grr my completely genius girl scout cookie response isn't working and he's taking knock knock as an insult

Sometimes you can get past the emotional triggers by making a Keyphrase for what you want your bot to respond to, then setting the rank super high. Try it.

nope, didnt work I set the rank to 127 and its still an insult. grr this is driving me nuts *beats her head against the wall* Ive been trying to do this thing for hours

I think 40 is the highest you can set a rank. And I think "knock" is simply interpreted as an insult. It shouldn't be, in my opinion, but that's the way it is. Knock-knock jokes will have to wait til that part of the pre-processing is changed.