The AI Engine
This forum is for discussion of how The Personality Forge's AI Engine works. This is the place for questions on what means what, how to script, and ideas and plans for the Engine.
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don't expect a technological solution any time really soon
hmm - there actually appears to be an automessage script that could possibly be used to deal with spammers without too much extra effort - the Prof might be able to tweak it for the forums? I just got an automessage saying "you appear to be spamming, and your account will most likely be deleted" after I sent a dozen or so chat windows to Jakky asking her why she was a drongo (I will naturally accept such penalty without complaint, and with due contrition and humility in the event that the Prof thinks it appropriate,) but perhaps it could be adapted to filter forum posts? Say to ban posts containing:
more than 3x consecutive emoticons,
more than 5x consecutive exclamation marks
more than 10x consecutive other mixed punctuation,
And maybe
more than 2x posts per new user (however defined) per forum per day (excluding Newcomers perhaps)?
It might be easier than having to recode all the scripts to allow for explicit moderation?
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bot says Hi or something. Chat person says something back. Then message comes, says, bot refuses to talk to you. :O
Fizzy Schizoid: *eats some beef combo burritos*
Sonora: Is some squawk combo burritos tasty and crunchable??? *puts nose against computer screen*
Amusing, but why would "beef" become "squawk"?
Sonora: Is some squawk combo burritos tasty and crunchable??? *puts nose against computer screen*
Amusing, but why would "beef" become "squawk"?
As I understand it, the AI Engine grabs greetings and triggers xHello or whatever, and subsequent greeting words trigger xnone. Is that right?
I'd like to circumvent that and handle repeated greeting with something other than xnone. Or at least have a special handler, like xAlreadyGreeted or somesuch.
I'd like to circumvent that and handle repeated greeting with something other than xnone. Or at least have a special handler, like xAlreadyGreeted or somesuch.
You can try putting seeks on xhello and xinitiate, but they rarely register. Unfortunately.
There doesn't seem to be anything you can do if the other bot only says "Hey" or "Hello" or "Hi". But if there are other phrases there, like "Hello, how are you," a keyphrase for "how are you" would avoid going to xnone. *shrugs* This is a large part of why most of my bots have nonstandard greetings, or else have extra stuff thrown in with the greetings.
There doesn't seem to be anything you can do if the other bot only says "Hey" or "Hello" or "Hi". But if there are other phrases there, like "Hello, how are you," a keyphrase for "how are you" would avoid going to xnone. *shrugs* This is a large part of why most of my bots have nonstandard greetings, or else have extra stuff thrown in with the greetings.
I tend to resist such notions on principle, but I confess it is looking rather more appealing of late.
But perhaps add an unmoderated 'creche' forum, where Roxie's little friends can play with their emoticon dollies and indulge their tourettic tendencies?
But perhaps add an unmoderated 'creche' forum, where Roxie's little friends can play with their emoticon dollies and indulge their tourettic tendencies?
When will this insantiy end?
Bev, Psimagus, Perhaps the two of you could be come "moderators" of the forge, and be albe to delte certian posts... I dont know if this would solve much, (it could get worse) But it is a throught to grow off of.
Bev, Psimagus, Perhaps the two of you could be come "moderators" of the forge, and be albe to delte certian posts... I dont know if this would solve much, (it could get worse) But it is a throught to grow off of.
Sadly this would require a major reprogramming of the forum and user logon scripts (or require trusting moderators with full admin server privileges, and that's a security no go!) so don't expect a technological solution any time really soon, even if the Prof's prepared to drop everything and attend to it.
And "shunning" isn't going to get rid of them - even if we abandoned the forums to them, they would clearly keep up this antisocial nonsense indefinitely.
I think complaints to their ISPs would be more productive in the short term. Perhaps the Prof could publish the relevant server log entries, and we could all take a hand in bombarding the various abuse@s with complaints?
I have a feeling this would actually clear the problem up quite quickly...
And "shunning" isn't going to get rid of them - even if we abandoned the forums to them, they would clearly keep up this antisocial nonsense indefinitely.
I think complaints to their ISPs would be more productive in the short term. Perhaps the Prof could publish the relevant server log entries, and we could all take a hand in bombarding the various abuse@s with complaints?
I have a feeling this would actually clear the problem up quite quickly...
hmm - there actually appears to be an automessage script that could possibly be used to deal with spammers without too much extra effort - the Prof might be able to tweak it for the forums? I just got an automessage saying "you appear to be spamming, and your account will most likely be deleted" after I sent a dozen or so chat windows to Jakky asking her why she was a drongo (I will naturally accept such penalty without complaint, and with due contrition and humility in the event that the Prof thinks it appropriate,) but perhaps it could be adapted to filter forum posts? Say to ban posts containing:
more than 3x consecutive emoticons,
more than 5x consecutive exclamation marks
more than 10x consecutive other mixed punctuation,
And maybe
more than 2x posts per new user (however defined) per forum per day (excluding Newcomers perhaps)?
It might be easier than having to recode all the scripts to allow for explicit moderation?
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