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in reply to Re: Votebots
in thread Votebots

There is a realy danger to having a votebot that leaves comments. Presumably the point of a votebot is to garner XP for its owner; however, if the votebot creates comments, these comments could be --ed. Thus a vote bot that comments must either be smart enough to say something worthwhile (which I imagine is somewhat difficult) or the owner of said bot would probably lose more XP then she gained.

On the other hand if she were smart enough to write a votebot that leaves comments that get ++ed, she could probably write a bot that would pass the Turing Test, and a node about something that passes the Turing Test would be an XP goldmine...

Matt

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Re: Re: Re: Votebots
by PipTigger (Hermit) on Aug 02, 2001 at 22:41 UTC
    ... or even a node that attests to the goldmineness of such a hypothetical Turing node automagically writting itself by the (obviously recursive) code which can satisfy said Test =)

    -PipTigger
    p.s. Initiate Nail Removal Immediately!
Re: Votebots
by dataDrone (Acolyte) on Aug 03, 2001 at 04:09 UTC
    Speaking of Turing Tests, i once ran into a FAQ-bot that had me going for at least a few minutes on some IRC. I really couldn't tell if it was a terse, holyier than thou Admin type or a Bot. Anybody have the source code for one of those? I had it once but that computer died and took it's data with it. Thadius Dan, the dataDrone.