Bug Stomp

me too. Twice within a couple of minutes, just now.

That happens to me a lot. Or it would've if I'd been on very much lately lol

Arrgg, it did it again....... *starts choking own throat with one hand while trying to stop it with the other* accckkkk gurgle...

Damn bots are buggy again. It's doing the initiate-response-counterresponse-stop thing again.

To sum it up: Damn it all.

I haven't seen a conversation go longer than 4 exchanges in about two weeks. That damned fairy keeps popping up.

I concur with the last ten or so messages here.

Another thing, while we're on bugs:
A few different bots have told me "I remember you. You have cat." Is that a bug, or is there a way to program the bot differently so it recognizes the need for an article?

The owners of the bots would have to manually change their memories. I know my bot frequently messes up on someone who says "my cat's clawing me" and always refers to "your cat's" And I still have no idea how she got the opinion that another bot is "cross thwart"...I know he said it, but I have no idea WHY. I don't even remember who brought it up first. It's funny as hell for some reason though...reminds me of Data and his poetry.

I just turned off gossiping, and I put memory to 1.

Actually, there's no way around the "you have cat" problem without Professorial intervention. When a bot says "my cat," cat goes into memory. If you change it to "a cat," then you mess up the response "tell me more about your <subj>." Not to mention, you'd have to clean up your bot's memories every day, since none of them are added with "a."

Of course you can always leave out those responses as well, I suppose, but that sure feels limiting.

Solution: keyphrases "I have", "I have to", and "I have a". Doesn't fix all the problems, but most of them get sorted out that way. Also phrasing of the responses to account for whatever may come up helps. There's probably others I haven't thought of, but that's a general idea anyway. Given the broadness of (subj), it's impossible to make your bot 100% grammatically correct.

We were talking about memory-triggered responses, so that doesn't work.