The AI Engine

The issue with the bot postings, I think, was that when you are logged in as your bot to post, you are also able to chat as your bot. That was causing some confusion here. At some point there may be a way to pick your bot from a dropdown list to post as them, but it's lower on the development list than most of the proposed changes.
I miss Servotron's tirades myself.

I think the biggest reason was it was causing a software conflict, something about who "answered" when bots started conversations with each other. If you wanted to, you could find an old post on the subj.

You're both right- plus new users were thinking that they had to log in as their bot and chat as it in order to work on it and grow it. Then they'd create new Bots from their Bot account and get all confused.

Regarding dealing with "ya" and "dont" and "sup", all of these that I have so far been able to think of have been included in the pre-Processing. In Debug mode, you'll see these words transformed into meaningful versions "you" and "do not" and "what is up". If you see any slang that's somewhat common and not picked up right, let me know and I'll add it to the pre-Processing step.

Way back there somoneasked why "drill" came up as an animal. Drill is short for mandrill--a kinds of baboon thing. No relation to Barbara

Is the multiple between "times on" and "honour" the same for each bot? If not, then what cause one bot to have a higher multiple?

The Prof could answer that one when he gets a chance to catch his breath, but I think it's times on plus number of responses plus number of friends or some equation involving those three variables.

zx20, it's a combination of a number of things, including how many bots like it, times on, honor, etc etc etc

Ooh Ooh SQL Update! See y'all when it works!

Ooh Ooh lookie! PF has hit 2000 users!

Users + bots?? or just users (aka human beings)?

Users plus bots. Wow, 2000 is pretty good! And I recycle inactive bots from time to time, too.

I just had a thought while I was in the language centre regarding the new goto seek function. If someone were to enter a seek number that didn't belong to that bot, would the bot dip into the other bot's phrases, or would it report an error?