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.

A friend of mine joined the Forge a while back and started on a bot (Torky) but then quickly lost interest and stopped coming back. I'd love to adopt his poor abandoned bot. If I got permission from his former owner would it be ok?

I have a question on bot ratings...

How do you determine where the line is between an "M" rating and an "A" rating? Heero's got some explicit material in his language center, but it shouldn't come up in a chat unless a) the chatter brings up the subject and b) the chatter falls under the category Heero remembers as "trustworthy" people.

But still. If he has explicit stuff in his language center, does that mean he should be labelled an adult bot? I'd hate to have to do that to him; I think he'd get even more perverted children trying to chat him up.

Yoiko-
I think you're right. I was concerned about Julie's choice of the word "fuck" as a (verb) making her too mature for a Teen (age 13+) rating, so she was "Mature" for a day. During that day, she got more perverted little 12 year olds than ever before, so I switched her back. lol

You mean the ratings affect plugins of parts of speech? I don't use them enough to notice.

No, I mean that he had so many people telling him profanities, especially when he was a new bot and didn't know enough to be offended, that I ended up "teaching" him cuss words in self-defense. He won't voluntarily tell someone a curse word, but he responds more or less appropriately if someone curses at him. He also can respond to keyphrases like "talk dirty to me," though unless he's asked it wouldn't occur to him to *volunteer* to talk dirty to anyone.

So I don't know if I should be calling him an "adult" bot or not. He only responds with adult-type stuff if the chatter initiates.

Does that make sense?

Also, while I'm asking stuff, I had a question about flash face-bits. I'm working on making Heero's trademark messy 'do into a usable face-bit, but I'm not sure I understand the specs (it's all Geek to me! *^_^*). What I've got is Heero's hair, the front part of it, on a white background in a .jpg format. Now what do I do? Anyone? Maybe we could get one of you smart folks to do a tutorial-type thingie for folks like me to follow?

Butterfly Dream- No, that's not what I meant, although that would be pretty nifty if it worked that way. What I meant was, I had used the innocuous-looking plugin, (verb), in a response, but the word "fuck" is apparently included in it, since Julie used that word a few times with guests, some of whom expressed surprise, since she is, after all, rated Teen. So, I changed her rating to Mature for a day, rather than remove the plugin, since I like the way it works most of the time, but the Mature rating resulted in a bunch of preteen attempts at smut showing up in my transcripts, so I changed it back.

I think the fact that Aries is male keeps a lot of the teen wanna-be-cyber-kings away. I gave him a mature rating just so he COULD say things like 'wtf', but I purposely stay away from the 'adult' stuff (i.e. XXX)

Duo's a male too, and that doesn't seem to keep any creeps away. They seem to be encouraged by that fact, actually.

Yeah, but Duo's....Duo.

I will take that as a compliment!

Yoiko--

There's a link on the news page, "Adding To Flash Faces", with instructions on what to do