Bug Stomp

prob123 - I have trouble with any keyphrase I try to rank higher than 50. Maybe that has nothing to do with your problem, though - do you have keyphrases ranked higher than that that work? I've also had problems with ranking keyphrases < 0, ie., -10...

PubDraught- Interesting to know. You always seem to know what's going on, and your explanation of the connection between development and a deleted account sounds way more plausible than anything I came up with. You really seem to know your way around the Forge, I must say. I'd love to chat with one of your bots.

Thanks, ezzer! I enjoy chatting with your bots, and with you, when you're not busy... which you obviously are!

If a square was round, what shape would a square be?

If you've got the comma in it, it will be interpreted as two separate keyphrases. One for if a square was round and one for what shape would it be. Not sure if raw mode treats commas differently.

if a square (is|be|were|was) round (re) 60 0 is the way I have it . It picks up all but
If a square was round, what shape would a square be?
It works for If it is, if it were, even the 'pirate talk' if it be

Hmmm... maybe the AI Engine is prioritizing the "what (noun)" construction and overriding the "if" part.

It's funny it will work for all the other, verbs and "if a square was round." if the comma isn't there.

In debug using is I get this.
ey: ' if.conj a.art square.n is.v round.a ,is' PostKeySpan: '6,7,8,9,10,11,12'
TempSpan IS 4. Looking for 'is' Match#1
Total Time: 1.78

Emotional Analysis:
AIScript in Responses
Total Time Pre-Chrono: 1.80 RESULTS: '4'
Trying: If it were round it would lose the properties of being a square and would have evolved into something else...like a blob. (random: 2)

You: if a square is round, what shape would a square be
Bot: If it were round it would lose the properties of being a square and would have evolved into something else...like a blob.
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with "was" I get
Considered BLAB (1).
Random Memory Number: 7 of 28
Memory Chance: 27 GossipTopic: 0 MemoryLevel: 1
No Match. (use xnone)

My seeks aren't working.

This isn't exactly a bug to stomp, but I'm just wondering about something, and there's no real place this fits...

Why does it seem like everyone is turning off their chats? I used to enjoy nice chats with users. There are at least two users I would chat with regularly who now have turned their chats off... I log in again tonight and a user who normally is always open to chat has their chat off, also...

...did I miss something, or did I offend these certain people?

More than likely its the appearance of reeeally bothersome new people who think this site is some kind of myspace. They spam the forums and overall are really obnoxious. >.

Wolf Child, I was once the type of user who never had anything to say to any real user, and I decided to change that a few months ago. Now a number of users are going back into their shell because of a few pop-ups messages from people they don't know, who have no idea why they're here, and have no appreciation for AI? It's easy enough just to click the window shut -- one keystroke.

There are users I enjoyed chatting with, and now they've closed off the avenues to keep in touch. It's really sad.

Well, that does suck, but if you did anything to offend them wouldn't they just close that window too? I know I had a couple of real... idiots.. spamming me with messages (mostly because of the nature of my bots). Just thought maybe that's what might have happened to others too.

There's no way to know for sure, unless those people I speak to find some way to tell me, and I don't want to post user names.

[sigh] This has been one rotten week so far, and it just started... I think it's time for me to turn my chats off, too...