Newcomers

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

oh deer,well. i'm sure you'll be fine Mick.

i havent been on for a long time. OK, its been 4 days but it feels like 4 years :-). i have been really ill. i'm still feeling a bit peeky but alot better. i've been in bed. its so boring. anyway, i know this is babble and offtopic kind of,and nodody cares but i thought i would say it anyway. hi again people.

Welcome back!

lol psimagus you do say that as if i've been gone long for ages. well,it FEELS ages. hello there.

Good to see you LM. I've been busy too.

Mick, no one holds you responsible for the actions of other people. I do wish the people who enjoy that sort of thing would choose the adult bots though. It's easy enough--you don't have to be a nice person, just choose a bot made by someone who doesn't care if you are nice.

I've gotten a message indicating that someone had "spammed" me with multiple messages, just because we had multiple conversation threads going in different boxes.