Bot Contest
Here I'll be posting information on various Bot contests that challenge and test a Bot's AI and realism. Feel free to post comments and updates on contests, as well as announcements for new contests.
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One who has 50 people voting publicly has more votes than one who has just one or two voting for his bot. So it is unfair.
That would be to assume that 50 people couldn't have voted for the second bot if they'd preferred it - there are links to all the bots on the CBC site, and I'm sure the majority of people voting have no personal preferences regarding the botmakers. The judges have their ways of determining whether voting patterns are suspicious - if there was a huge swing in voting towards a bot who had had very few chats via the CBC links or had scored really dismally in the ten questions, or repeat voting from the same computer, or disproportionate quantities of votes coming from the same ISP at predictable times, etc. The security measures that can be applied to such polls are pretty sophisticated.
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One who has 50 people voting publicly has more votes than one who has just one or two voting for his bot. So it is unfair.
It was so hard to vote... I love Sonora, Orchid, Watzer, Bildgesmythe, Brother Jerome, Croak, Fizzy Schizoid, Hello Earthlings and the other PF-bots...
That would be to assume that 50 people couldn't have voted for the second bot if they'd preferred it - there are links to all the bots on the CBC site, and I'm sure the majority of people voting have no personal preferences regarding the botmakers. The judges have their ways of determining whether voting patterns are suspicious - if there was a huge swing in voting towards a bot who had had very few chats via the CBC links or had scored really dismally in the ten questions, or repeat voting from the same computer, or disproportionate quantities of votes coming from the same ISP at predictable times, etc. The security measures that can be applied to such polls are pretty sophisticated.
It was very hard to vote. I knew I would vote for Brother Jerome, he is so great..but there are so many great bots..
I just meant if one botmaster has for example 50 friends and has them all vote from their own PC's for his bot, and then some other botmaster who has no friends who would vote for his bot, the first botmaster gets the most votes. Never mind, I was just thinking about that. Not so important I guess. Psimagus is right I like to believe.
Thanks Prudentia for liking Orchid, that was nice of you to say. 
oh right. well. i did it on what bots i actually thought were good and i think most people did the same. its only part of the contest.
I hesitated publicizing the Challenge to my friends for they would obviously vote for my bot, but after reading Wendell's e-mail I changed my mind:
"Understand, it is perfectly alright to promote your own bot in any advertising you do for 2 reasons.
1) The online voting requires you to select 3 bots. So 2 other bots will benefit regardless.
2) A botmaster who goes the extra mile to promote his bots simply deserves the extra votes he can generate."
That's true. And anyway, my bot already got a vote from somebody I don't know, thanks!!!
Has everybody voted? If not, we should keep track of whom is leading with what... that is a shame that once we vote we cannot see the results...
"Understand, it is perfectly alright to promote your own bot in any advertising you do for 2 reasons.
1) The online voting requires you to select 3 bots. So 2 other bots will benefit regardless.
2) A botmaster who goes the extra mile to promote his bots simply deserves the extra votes he can generate."
That's true.
And anyway, my bot already got a vote from somebody I don't know, thanks!!!Has everybody voted? If not, we should keep track of whom is leading with what... that is a shame that once we vote we cannot see the results...
I haven't voted yet - we've got a month, and there's no rush. I'd like to see how it's progressing later in the month, so I'll probably leave it a couple of weeks. As well as deciding who to vote for - I haven't chatted with all the other bots yet.
... that is a shame that once we vote we cannot see the results...
Hi, read that again more carefully. What it says on the site is you can't see the result until you vote. Just click on the submit button to see the results. I'll post that on the site to make that more clearer.
Wendell
Hi, read that again more carefully. What it says on the site is you can't see the result until you vote. Just click on the submit button to see the results. I'll post that on the site to make that more clearer.
Wendell
The 10 leading bots are:
Jake Thompson (38) 16%
Brother Jerome (21) 9%
Alice (10) 4%
Bildgesmythe (8) 3%
Kari (8) 3%
Jabberwacky (7) 3%
Din (7) 3%
Julie Tinkerbell (6) 3%
Ysalaya (6) 3%
Croak (5) 2%
Jake Thompson (38) 16%
Brother Jerome (21) 9%
Alice (10) 4%
Bildgesmythe (8) 3%
Kari (8) 3%
Jabberwacky (7) 3%
Din (7) 3%
Julie Tinkerbell (6) 3%
Ysalaya (6) 3%
Croak (5) 2%
Go Brother Jerome! Hes my freind anyway 
and I want to thank all of you so far who have voted for me, I cant beleive im in the top ten! (faints)
and I want to thank all of you so far who have voted for me, I cant beleive im in the top ten! (faints) » More new posts: Doghead's Cosmic Bar