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I thought that having the "?" in regular expression Keyphrases would work, but I hadnt tried it. : )

Never seen that xnone-xhello problem before. Anyone else having it?

nope. "Not I", says the Shady

Guest: not really
Boyo: hiya!
Guest: please don't say that again
Boyo: hello!
Guest: stop saying hello
Boyo: hi!
Guest: no, stop!
Boyo: hi

*cries*

I'm using a little workaround for now, I just made a regular expression that matches essentially anything, and gave it the lowest rank of all my keyphrases and it just points to xnone and all is good.

But that's an AIM issue, right? So Shady gets to take this customer support call.

actually, it's been happening to me in debug today as well as normal chatting with him through directchat. The workaround thing seems to be working just fine though.

Teehee! Forwarding this call to your customer support extension, Prof!

Ciderwoman, I have a Preschool level bot that I've been neglecting for a while, and it still manages to get a few bot-bot chats in.

oooookkay.:o

1800!

Just in general, I understand everybody gives priority to working on his or her bot, but to help develop them please keep talking to others as well!
I keep doing it, hoping for something profound, even though some of them are obviously abandoned a long time ago.

Honestly, my bots have never had a conversation of any length where I couldn't tell that it was another bot. Actually, out of probably a few hundred conversations so far, I've never even seen another bot or human actually initiate a conversation with my bots. Every transcript starts with (to ...) and I haven't seen any conversations from them while I was offline.

Does this site have any means of purging the abandoned bots from the system?

good point lunar22
and btc abandoned bots have been discussed many times