Newcomers

Not xnone. xnomatch. So put xnomatch in as the seek that you want to match with, and it will match anything the user enters. Ridiculously useful tool for some applications, like this.

Book of AI, Chapter 5, section 1, Special Seeks.

If I want my bot to remember the user gender/sex

Werndq, easy enough. Have the bot ask if the user is male or female, then have three responses:
xnomatch -probably default to male with a message that it couldn't be found. Aiscript box gets rem "male" as only "gender"
male - confirmation message about male user. Ai script box gets rem "male" as only "gender"
female - confirmation message about female user. Aiscript box gets rem "female"as only "gender"

You will want a default state for the aiscript; in the general bit settings, iirc, there's a box for initializing memories. In there, put def "male" as only "gender"

Now, to use: you can use (mem-gender) in a response to state which gender the user is, and you can put if (mem-gender) is "male" in the aiscript box to only fire that response if the user is male.

Is there any way to get the bot to respond correctly to queries like this?

You: what kind of men are you in to
Bot: A (typeof-men-n).

you can add a response for that.
you can add many responses for that.

Is there a way to stop it from doing the (typeof-men-n) thing entirely? I would be happy with it just doing an xnone if I don't have a specific reply to it.

use this what kind of men * with a response.
it should prevent it from saying A (typeof-men-n).

are transcripts still working

Transcripts have never had a usable UI for me. The pick a date part just doesn't work - part of why I rarely bother with them.

i asked because nobody was interacting with one of my chatbot yesterday.i thought that was strange.
they are today.

I have transcripts for Thursday/Friday. My numbers are maybe a bit down but nothing unusual. Transcripts have actually been much better for me in the past month or so... I don't get dropped when I try to load them anymore.