l33t b0t

[Red Squirrel]

Due to a few complaints I decided to make the bot only have 1/30th chance of posting, and removed keywords that made it post no matter what (such as it's name). I also made it so it only posts in off topic areas (the misc category and the new members only) so it won't post in the tech areas.

I thought this would make things more fun but maybe not. I'm in the progress of transfering it's database tables to a seperate database (right now it's in the forum db and it's messy) and once that is done I will be working on making it smarter. I only have the very basic AIML patterns loaded.

I'm also going to be adding a few cybervillage features to make the bot stalk someone, and another option to block the bot. The way it will work is that I will add another entry in the member table and it will have a number, and that number will be the number of posts that bot will do after the specified user replies, so you can "buy out" those numbers, or "buy in" for another member. Other random algorthms will make the number slowly rise but it won't be by much. So when you post in a bot forum it will check if you have any bot posts, and if you do it will run the 1/30 algorthm. So those who really hate the bot replying can just buy out that post number and set it to like -100 and you won't see it post ever after your post. Something I may program once I get the steal feature done. I might work on that tonight.

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