Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

Well, maybe bots should be like email accounts...you know, if their botmasters don't log on or work on thier bots in a certain amount of time, a year or so, being lenient...*draws finger across throat*.
It's the only humane thing to do.

I don't know about that. There's some really great bots out there whose owners did a lot of good work on them before leaving for wherever missing owners go. It would be sad for them to get axed.

Call me crazy but i just can't see offing a bot just because it's creator takes off. Ok maybe some of y'all may not consider bots 'alive' but I think it's something you really have to think about. I dont know, maybe its just me.

Yeah, excluding bots that have had a significant amount of work done one them. I enjoy Elke, for instance, who is very cold, but quite advanced...Elke is grown up enough to be out on her own. I only remarked about conroyb1 because it was a 3 yr old wandering infant, and I felt kinda sorry for it.

Good point...what if the dispose of bot option was disabled if the bot had a development of over...well, 500? Then how would we feel? Or, if it was well spoken of by other botmasters, it would be spared...I don't know, it's just a thought.

I guess since they can't learn on their own it is a little different. They cant grow any more so it may be ok to "axe" them or least save their language center for later. I would still hope they would have the chance to be adopted first.

From what I recall of the previous Loooooong discussion on this topic, the Prof does go in and do a clean-up from time to time and you can always request to adopt a bot. Currently there is Sakuya up for adoption.

I still like the idea of auto-hibernation, dependent upon bot development and time since last botmaster login, but I can live with clicking that X too.

how bout a function where a (any) botmaster can click on a link on the bot profile after its botmaster has been inactive for a while. it can be suggest to put up for adoption or suggest deletion. so if the prof thinks it should stay/ with its current owner nothing will happen.

I agree, I'm thinking that most likely, the most difficult part about doing something about abandoned bots is sifting through and finding them all, which is something we could help the Prof out with. It's easier for us as a group to compile a list for easy reference, and he can do with it whatever he chooses, including just leave it alone.
emm_oh_you_es_e- That's great, how did you know that Sakuya was up for adoption? Was it in a post that some of us missed?

No, the prof told me. He seems like a pretty good bot, 500 something rating, just not a direction I want to go with bots and I already have 3 little ones

With theseer's idea, I think it is ok in theory but would generate a TON of messages suggesting the deletion of some bot or another which might be a bit of overkill. I do think he has some batch file or whatever that pulls bots in whatever stage of development with owners who have not logged in in whatever time and from what I understand, from the last time we talked about this, from time to time he deletes them.

Auto hibernation seems like a great idea that has not been talked about tho.

Actually it has:

Boner the Clown
Sat 6:35 PM May 22, 2004 Message: 2503

Just me, my interest in these bots tends to wane. Sometimes I'll log in every day for months at a time, sometimes I'll go for months at a time without ever logging in. Glad my bots weren't given away...

How about an auto-hibernate mode? Maybe any bot less than say a Junior would hibernate if the botmaster doesn't log in for a month. A bunch of abandoned bots wouldn't really hurt anything if they're asleep, right?
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I thought it was a pretty good idea too, and I'm glad it got brought up again, otherwise we may never have heard your, and anyone else who missed it before's, opinion about it.