Conversations Forum

Cer · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: Conversations Forum

Here's an idea for a new board on Bot-Depot:

Bot conversation logs!

All our bots have some funny/smart conversations with users from time to time, and reading other bots' conversations gives us ideas for new triggers to add to our own bots' brains. So have a forum where people can post their bot's conversations.

Forum Rules
1. One topic per bot. If somebody starts more than one topic for the same bot, the newer topic would be deleted.
2. All replies in one thread should only be about other conversations people have had with that bot.
3. Any replies in somebody's thread that don't relate to that bot's conversations would be deleted.
4. When posting bot conversations, anonymize it (replace usernames with "user" or something along those lines).

So what do y'all think?

zander · God Like Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 540 Location: england

i think it would be a great idea, would give people something to do on the board lol and spring a few idea's to mind

yer i see its a good idea

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

I think that someone could take it one step farther. I know DM made a perl code to post messages on invision boards. Maybe someone could do that for phpBB. Then, you could add a command that would let you view the logs, and another command to let you add the funny ones to a file. That file would be run through the posting code and edited into the thread on Bot-Depot.

That just an idea, but the forum sounds great.

zander · God Like Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 540 Location: england

yes he did make a command to post on forums:

CLICK HERE TO GET THE CODE

save that as a .pl file and it does work ive used it on my ipb forum

Cer · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:56 am Post subject:

zander · God Like Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 540 Location: england

well why not do it so every time the bot signs out or every say 3 hours? the bot submits it?

Mojave · Almost An Agent Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 1434

I'm not so interested in seeing a bunch of funny bot logs. They keep me amused for maybe 5 minutes and then I move on. What seems to be of much more VALUE for us bot developers is to create a database of what users reply to our bots' messages. That is, we should have a simple system, where bots can "post" a bot/user message/reply pair. Then we have a site where we (the developers) and even the bots themselves can search the pairs to find out what things users say in response to triggers. This can even be used as an extension to an Alice type bot. If you build up enough input/output pairs, you can even then do pattern analysis on all of that content and create even more useful tools.

HELP US, HELP YOU!