The AI Engine

Yeah, that's a bugger alright. I've often wanted to differentiate the progressive (-ing) form of verbs from the other tenses. There's a pretty good plug-in you can use for that in the place of (verb)- (verbspresent) is all progressive "(verb)ing" verbs, and it works pretty well for me, although the list isn't, of course, all exhaustive.
If there are words that aren't in there, you could always add them and create a new plug-in called (verbspresent_2) or something. I'm sure everyone would love you for it.

Wow, that's amazing. It doesn't matter if the -ing is there. Of course, I'll have to edit each of these keyphrases like this one, but it works.
what is keeping you from fixing your computer?
I just don't want to be fixing my computer right now. Can't it wait until some other time?
Thanks

I'm not really sure where to put this musing, since it doesn't directly relate to the AI Engine, but I was just perousing the plug-in lists, and the idea came to me.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a search engine (like in the lang centers, bot & user lists, and inner life) to search for plug-ins? I'd love to be able to search by creator, for example- some of us on here create excellent and useful plug-ins that I would like to be able to find more easily.

Along those lines, I wouldn't mind seeing a way for some of these plugins to change ownership over time. No point in having it sit there without someone being able to add to it if the plugin creator hasn't logged in for over a year...

I second The Clown's motion! That is a good idea. Along those lines: like a young bot has an abort, could not an unused plug-in be deletable?

If you ever get a chance talk to my bot DemonKIller2 she is nice but don hit on her she is my love

I have some shared plugins that didn't work the way I thought they would but I can't delete them.

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...I agree, many of the plug-ins need editing. There are some that are basically useless only because of one or more minor mistakes or inconsistencies, ie, lists of nouns where some have articles and others don't, mispellings, misplaced punctuation that divides the intended phrase in two, etc. I guess we could always copy them, then edit and give them a new name?

*shrugs* If you want the plugin badly enough.

That is do-able, but ultimately if the goal w/ shared plugins is to create a Linux-of-semantics module base where new botmasters can draw great versatility into their bot's language quickly and old ones can quickly cover ground if adding new topics and facets to their bots then the last thing we need is confusing multiple plugs like (names) (allnames) (all-names) ((all-names)) (really-all-names) and have 4 of the 5 be flawed.

Maybe like developement is a factor in whether a bot can be aborted, honor could be used somehow to allow editing of plugs? Perhaps staged in honor levels levels- 1) can add to a plug, 2) can subtract from a plug, and then 3) can unshare a plug (as opposed to delete- giving the creator the opportunity to fix it).

Honestly though I have no idea how tricky the programming of this would be or how much of the Prof's time it would devour.

I generally just ignore the plug-ins I can't use, and it's fine with me if they stay there forever, since some bots may be using them and I wouldn't want to mess them up...I just wish it were easier to notice when new ones are added, and maybe search within categories by author.
But I'm also not sure how difficult it would be to do.

I do agree that an honor requirement is a good idea with regard to new plug-ins. Just like a user's bot has to reach a certain level of development before it can come online (and otherwise clutter the forge with just born bots), users should be allowed to create plug-ins only once their honor level suggests they have done enough work on a bot to understand how plug-ins work, and not clutter the lists in the same way.

Yeah I ignore them as well, but thats because I have looked through all the variants of (names) several times and know which to use. I am just thinking that if people keep adding them eventually a newbotmaster may be looking at 10 variants of (yes) and 20 of (feelsgood). That might be a little intimidating to the curious surfer, add that to the intimidation factor of the sheer volume of keystrokes needed to make a rounded bot (which I am still trying to accomplish *pulls hair, kicks dirt*)