Personality

I have noticed that the short ones have been being chosen and have upped a LOT of ranks to get the longer ones working.

Well then the short one was probably more at the beginning or in a later sentence, OR the long one somehow wasn't an exact match... that'd be my guess...

I'm talking about the situation where the short one is a subset of the longer one.

I think Whatsifsowhatsit's statement is the most accurate - but insofar as length is a decider, the AIengine is supposed to prefer the long. It doesn't always do what it is supposed to do.

pubdraught i want u as a friend im a weirdo they all say it kids i hate em

Rats. I keep putting in longer keyphrases so as not to pick up on a random "what" in the middle of a sentence that is taken as a question, and now I'm going to have to uprank them. Do you have to uprank them (I'm sure "uprank" is a real word) more than 1? I guess I'll figure it out my own self. Just mouthing off after a hard day's play.

i hate u all i found mates on www.@golivewire.com who help with my self harm problem

The Clerk, apologies if I'm reading into your last post wrong, but if you're trying to capture a "What?" or even just a single "what" with no sentence and no punctuation (used in a "What did you say?" type of way), you're probably better off using keyphrase ^what$ (re) rather than just a plain what.

Yeah, I do the ^what$(re), I was just too lazy or stupid to type it in. But I still get weird things happening in my bots. Sometimes I know what it is, I just don't have enough fingers and hours in a day.

Anybody have any tips on decent keyphrases to use the Sentence-Part Plug-Ins for Responses?

I am at botter's block. I have so many keyphrases that never get triggered that Botolph pretty much says xnones and xnonsense. I guess I got too specific.

Never mind, I get it. They're responses, not keyphrases. But how do I know ahead of time whether something a bot (or the occasional person) throws at me will have the parts of speech I could access if they were there?

read conversations of the past and see what's being said, read, watch tv... what do people say and ask?