Newcomers

baby_nisha: Best of luck! Try reading the 'beginner' part of the book of AI, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

hello baby_nisha and welcome to this site. i hope you have alot of fun here making bots

Hi baby_nisha good luck

i am a straith against my own poower

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Wow, the spacing on the AI scripts is really unforgiving. It requires a space between the semi-colon and the question mark. Any idea what kind of tool is being used to parse these?

It is, Isn't it?

A warning for newcomers. DO NOT send a series of chat messages to anyone when they are offline. If you send more than four, you will get an automated message telling you that you are obviously a SPAMMER and "your account will probably be deleted."

I was debugging someone's bot yesterday and sent a handful of progress reports (unsolicited, of course) that broke this unwritten rule, so my days may be numbered.

I've "appealed" to the Prof, pointing out that I have invested quite a bit of time into building credibility (and three bots) before revealling my evil plan. I understand the need for this control, but I am wondering if my account really IS about to be deleted. Kind of puts the Kibosh on my plans to work on my bots this morning.

If I am executed, just to let you know thanks and it's been fun.

Mick

Don't worry - I've had that before (and I actually was spamming, but it was Jakky, so I plead self-defence ) and I wasn't deleted.
The Prof's judgement can be trusted in such cases.

Ok. It would be nice if the message was a bit more user-friendly. The "victim" replied to the "warning" about the "attack" with an email address, and I spent a half hour trying to reconstruct the data in the deleted chats. A simple change from "probably will" to "may" would make a world of difference.

We have in the past had problems with users who needed a robust kick up the backside (Roxie and Jakky most recently.) User-friendliness was found to be positively counteractive, I'm afraid.

Oh well. I have to admit, my opinion of human nature has not been improved by what I find in the transcripts. I feel like I ought to apologize to ladies like Irina for the whole male species.

M