Hopebot

Hopebot's mom is stil a toaster.   

And I'm a sideways, bottle-licking SD-card carrying member of the "people who take both advil and tylenol simultaneously under the false impression that the ingredients of each when mixed together form a potent drug cocktail that makes methamphetamines look tame" club, and My mother was a Craftsman blender, my father, a Coffee machine. Mr.Coffee. Then one day my mother left us, saying she needed to get her blade sharpened, and we haven't seen her since. Although I have posters of panoramas from social gatherings and we play a game of "where's the Craftsman Blender" with them. We've found Radio Shack blenders, Black And decker blenders, and even a esoteric Disney model, but no Craftsman blender.

Then I suddenly realized that craftsman didn't make blenders, and I woke up. The End.

Omg the computerhope bot is back?

Is this the same bot that we were teaching to respond automatically in the chat?


Lol I remember when I set a bot back in the days in the IRC chat room, but that was a long time ago.. I used WinBot and it did a pretty good job for the most part, it censored bad words and protected the IRC with antiflood, which means more then 10 lines a sec = auto kick.. I could never get the ban and block to work. I was also trying to setup my bot to kick people who advertise but that was ages ago ( late 90's)


*Sigh* The good ol times. I remember when there was 2 or 3 ops in the chat and it would be like 1am when all the people you would have 5 or 6 people and there would be a line..  Man I miss staying up to 2 in the morning answering people's questions.


If it is the same bot I am thinking about then I might drop by to say hi, unless he is just a plain sentential bot that just monitors for offensive/spam language?

Oh and hello to everyone since I am posting here

I normally don't use the forums if anyone remembers me, I use to work in the chat room a very long time ago then real life happen. Might stop by again when I have time to see if anyone I know is still working there

I think the bot you may be thinking of Windows98 is the Zero chatbot. Hopebot isn't meant really to be a chatbot but more of just a help / maintain channel bot.

[Moderator]

I had no idea your Dad was Joe DiMaggio....

Users who've been in chat the last week may have seen me around a lot more. Since chat's continued to be one of the areas with the most complaints spent a lot of time this week improving hopebot and the chat below are a list of the few major things I've done.

• Moved the chat to Mibbit Premium. Gets rid of advertisements and allows for branding.
• Chat .
• Added flood protection to hopebot.
• Corrected all issues with hopebot not detecting loss of connection and being able to reconnect.
• Corrected all issues with !seen command and not reporting proper time when user was last on. Increased backlog of user list to 500+ plus all users who've logged in and been active since hopebot last joined.
• Moved database of responses to external file.
• Added improved AI for phone support when suggesting users to call a company, should pull company contact information page.
• Improved abuse detection with hopebot.

Good job Nathan.
Thanks for making all of this possible, hey, give yourself a raise.   

Nathan, can I have a raise on my allowance?

Sure, the check is in the mail.

How do you know where I live? I don't use chrome.

Did I say it was being mailed to you?

Hopebot 7.0d

Been spending a lot of time this week again going through the logs daily and updating hopebot. Unfortunately Friday was a little troublesome because of a new feature I added to help detect URL spamming, since someone came in earlier spamming a porn site. However, after spending several hours Friday and into today writing up a new time routine I believe that issue as well as many of the other issues should be resolved.

For legit users I hope this resolves a bunch of the false warnings many of you have received while at the same time keeps the chat safe at all times of the day making things enjoyable for everyone.

Thanks for your continued patience.

Yes, it was indeed a little problematic 

Thanks for fixing that for me Nathan.

Sorry again Quantos, tried to take the easy way out and apparently still didn't work from what I saw in the log tonight.

[2009-11-21 08:21:01] <Quantos> http://www.intel.com/consumer/learn/desktop/corei7-detail.htm
[2009-11-21 08:21:01] -HopeBot- *WARNING # 1/3* Quantos Don't spam the same URL please.
[2009-11-21 08:21:19] <Quantos> Oh goodie, here we go again 

I've made the time based warnings on the URL host dependent so *hopefully* now shouldn't get this again.

Thanks Nathan, hopefully it works this time.  I know how frustrating it can be to go over the same thing again and again.

No need to apologize, stuff happens - and I knew you'd fix it.