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hahaha you're all funny

lol yearh

With all due respect, shouldn't these sort of conversations be in Seasons?

yearh should. lets not be to hard on the guy though..he is new.

What do you guys think about having a pledge drive here at The Forge? I'm thinking we could tell our friends what we do here, and get them to pledge money for us to update our bots in 24 hours. It could be money per page of added text, or by the keyphrase, whatever we decide. We then donate the pledges to the Forge to support the web site and the professor. We could share or greatest ideas with each other. We could even have PF prizes for most pledges, most money, and most added content. What do you think?

I doubt it would work. People do pledge drives for causes that they believe in, and can't do much for. That doesn't really seem to be likely.

I somehow don't think we could get people to donate based on how much we update our bots. Most people have barely any interest in chatbots... I guess you really have to make one to appreciate the work that goes into them. I know no one I know would offer money for me to update my bots. They'd look at me like I was crazy.

I think if we wanted to raise money with the chatbots, we would need to do it by making bots for people on commission. That might actually bring in some money, if we could get people interested.

On the other hand, I think an in-house pledge drive might be beneficial. Perhaps the Prof could set a sliding scale of "possible improvements/additions" and we could pitch in to get them implimented? You'd think it'd be a win-win.

i barely come on these days. lol. i think your idea is okay but its the trouble of it working lol

Regarding the recent news posted by The Professor... I understand completely but I wish the situation was different. I do hope, however, that The Professor will or can post prior to having downtime on the site, so the rest of us that are free can schedule our time around his. I have and do really enjoy doing ai experimentation (not counting the fun involved) here.

Suggestion:
If downtime is necessary, a consistent schedule would be least frustrating for regular users. The most obvious one would be nine-to-five, Monday through Friday, server time, depending on how much time the Professor needs. Or if a regular schedule isn't feasible, then perhaps a default screen indicating that the Forge is down due to server conflicts.

I also hope it isn't necessary, but either of the above would make it cause fewer problems.

Considering all the work he did to set up this site, we really ought to just try to be flexible for as long as the situation continues. I don't think we can ask of him that he keep a constant, regular work schedule all the time. Does anyone do that these days? As long as we still get a five minute warning before the server is shut off, I'm fine with it being unavailable sometimes. A default screen sounds like a very good idea though if the forge is not up, what screen would we get when we tried to sign in anyway?

And on the bright side, this will mean the server will be restarted much more often, so the xnoneitis epidemics will be practically eradicated for a while.