Bot Contest

Awwh I'm going to cry Steve hasn't moved a rank in 5 days :'(

How about this convo between Steve and another contest PF bot? (If you have done any scouting of the competition, you will know who it is )

Steve Slacker: (to PFBot1) Hey Davine, I feel tyrannizeed...
PFBot1: Hello. Are you the blue fairy?
Steve Slacker: Don't throw stones in glass houses without proper protection
--- BTW, prof... is there any way to make verbs into past tense like that? For that specific comment, I have "(verb)ed", and as you can see it doesnt work too well for verbs ending in "e"...

Oh yeah... How do downloaded bots store questions and responses and report them "back home"? I guess they wouldn't, or that would be considered spyware

Yah, I suppose they dont. It's too bad. That's half the fun.

Ah yes, proper transformation is on the way, and the assumed format will be the correct one: (verb)ed, (verb)ing, (noun)s, etc. That's to be part of the upgraded AI Engine.

Oooooh Ahhhh

If anyone's interested, I've sent this to Chris Cowart:
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Hi Chris,

If there's another way to do this or someone better to send this to, please let me know. I need to place a formal complaint about the jury votes.

I've tried to just sit back and be OK with my jury ranking, but I really can't do it anymore and I feel I need to say something. I have seen your comments about the way your 10 questions were scored and feel the same. I really think we all need an explaination of each judge's reaction to each question.

Oraknabo is one of the only bots in the top ten on the popular vote that didn't make it into the top of the jury list, and he barely made it into the top half! I've tested out as many of the bots in the contest as I can and I have come to the conclusion that my scores are absolutely unfair. One judge gave me a three, that is simply insulting.

I have never in my life seen judges scores so disparate in any competition. If numbers ranging from 3 to 33 out of 50 were applied to the same athlete in the Olympics or in a boxing match, there would be an investigation of the judges. Benji put in Divine as a joke and he has higher scores than a three. He doesn't answer any question in either the 10 questions OR the logged conversation appropriately. I admit that mine totally bombed on a couple of the 10 questions, but I thought his logged conversation was excellent.

Please understand, It's not that I'm just mad that I'm not winning. I really wouldn't care if all my scores were consistent and I still ended up below top ten. I just can't see any logical justification of some of the lower scores I've been given. If there is one, I would very much like to hear it.
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I actually also posted something similar to the forum off of the contest site. If anyone has anything to add, either in support of or in dispute to my comments, I would appreciate the effort.
thanks.

I think the highest and lowest scores were thrown out.. Actually, I just did the math, and that's exactly the case.

I think Judge 6 & 7 should be thrown out completely, the former for being always too high, the later for always being insultingly low.

I get the impression some of the judging was done real quick - my scores cover quite a range too.

Yes, the range is incredible -- but forget the range for a second, just look at the scores. OK, Gizzle didn't do great on some of the questions. But to get those sub-10 scores, he'd have to have bombed them generally -- and some of them were right-on, I don't think anyone could argue.

Since we know how they were supposed to be scored, why not score them ourselves? Might take some time, but we'd at least have a Forge concensus. I'll post here when I've had a go a it -- if anyone else does it, post them ranked and scored... I wonder how close we'll be.

Here's something hilarious! Davine's voting score is 0.83. I just realized that the lowest score you can give someone is 1, so somehow Davine is so bad that his total is less than one!

Actually, because of the way it works, if 1 person gave him a 1, he'd have a .5 -- if two did, he'd have a .75... and so on. It's an average, divided by the number of votes plus one.