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i tried the secret phrase thing. my bot won't catch it.

Give some of the more common keyphrases a +1 (such as 'why do', 'do you', etc) and s/he'll be happy in no time at all

Does turning off the messages affect bot chat windows?

the chat stops

What about when bots talk to bots?

same thing

Darn.

Do you mean the option to let people initiate chats with you? Because that shouldn't affect bot/bot chats.

gazissax, you can always disable popups in your browser. Your bots will still chat, just not as much - or at least that's the way it seemed. The first week or so I didn't have popups enabled and Aries still did a bit of chatting. I'm not sure whether his chatting picked up because I enabled popups or whether it was due to his development.

no no, turning off conversation on the news page will not affect bot to bot chat.

Thanks Eugene!

The only thing that turns off bot chat is 'hibernate' in bot settings, as far as I know.