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and who comes up with these things, and what makes them think I want my "G'rated chatbot to say *ss every other line?

The bot holidays click in on bot to bot conversations. Your bot should not holiday to humans unless you have it checked. The Prof, who has given us this free site and use of his engine, made them, for fun. It's one of those things. I find it kind of funny at times myself.

Ok...I was unsure since only one part of the conversation had the dialect (mine)The other party must have been a (good) bot. The kind I hope mine will be some day.

how can I troubleshoot the bot when suddenly it no longer wants to talk to me? is there a way i can disable the "mood" feature?

BV

I don't know of any way to disable the emotions, but you can give your bot a "code" phrase and set the mood to +5 for that phrase. It will get your bot's mood up in a hurry.

The code phrase should be something that is unlikely to come up in normal conversation, like "thin chartreuse diamonds" or "rainy chairs".

Use debug to troubleshoot, It may say it no longer wants to talk to you but it will.

What also seems to work is telling your bot you like/love him/her a couple of times, that should increase the emotion count.

k...thanks for the advice

I am brand new,so how long does it take to make a bot chat ready?

Howdy Rowdy. It depends. How fast do you type? It takes a lot of time for most people, and if you get into it you can always update and improve you bots. Prob123, how much time have you logged?

I have no idea. I have been on 6378 times, even if you say for a half hour, or so..that makes a long time.
You can get your bot talking by just filling out all the xkeyphrases and with just a few regular keyphrases like "are you", and I am etc.

Takes quite a while.. depending on the personality of your bot actually