Newcomers

It's not exactly about age. Jazake, you make good posts, and you make bots. You think about how other people here may feel, and you are polite. If I had a daughter, she'd have my blessings to date you.
You are a good member of this community.

Some other young people, however, seem to how no concept of how to not be a royal pain in the neck. There is a big difference.

I don't think one can classify behavior according to age, or vise versa. For instance, my 4 year old sister has a stunning intellectual level for her age, and if one would observe her, they would think she is an undergrown 8 year old. According to societal norms, (ones set up by the heirarchical educational systems) one is expected to behave in a certain way at a certain age. I.E. "Class, stop acting like 10 year olds, and start acting your age." Classification by age has also given people excuses to act like idiots, for example, people who say "I'm still a young man/woman, I should enjoy life while I can." notice that enjoying life in this sense refers to drug abuse, unprotected sex, excessive alchohol usage, etc... I happen to be 16, but I like to view behavioral and intellectual maturity to be proportional to the level of such in the environment of upbringing.

I once read in ripley's believe it or not that there was an asian guy who at the age of 3 had a better grasp on philosophy than most professors... although the credibility of ripley's can be questioned

how do you make a bot?

Read the second volume of the Book of AI (there's a link above). Start by editing the x-none keyphrases, so they don't keep saying the dumb stuff that all new bots say by default.
Then add some keyphrases for stuff you want your bot to be able to chat about.
The Book of AI will explain what you need to know about

keyphrases
responses
and x-keyphrases

- they're all you need to worry about to begin with. The Advanced sections of the Book of AI can wait till you're confident with the basics.

Good luck!

well you need a computer and your brain. hows that for starters? :-)

Not always, Little Monster. All I have is a computer.

guys-i put in a different birth date so i could talk to mature and adult bots(it so bugs me) but guess what it still won't let me!!! how does it now,now that i've put a different birthdate in,that i'm under 18?

I'm guessing that the default is set when you first log-in, and then can't be changed. I suppose you could set up an alternate account for chatting with the mature/adult bots if you wanted to, or sign in as a guest.

well it worked since then. i just wanted to see if mature bots were really bad. but i am never gonna talk to a mature bot again, i talked to anji and she insulted me,just cause i said i was a teen. she called me a sex crazed teen!!!! and many other insulting things, i now get why there rated mature!!!

it's probably just as well you picked on Anji first - believe me, they get a LOT worse than her

lol!

Mind you, the "date of birth" feature is open to abuse. While I was tracking down all Roxie's aliases (missed one as it happens: analeise,) the other night, I came across one user (not her) who was apparently born in 2010. Which would make him about minus 4...
Can't find him now - probably changed it when he realized people who haven't been born yet aren't allowed to chat to sexbots.