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[heydude6]

Just here to verify that I got the PM.

[Mamobo]

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Starting Post: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=177520.0
Ending Post: None
Number of Pages Parsed: 3
Number of Posts Parsed: 121

Settings:
Auto-Add Players: True
Source: Source.PRIVATE_MESSAGE
Source User: webadict

Mamobo is missing protocols
Vote Count
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Caz (Vote Text: ᴛʀɪᴄᴍᴀɢɪᴄ) -
FallacyofUrist (Vote Text: webadict webadict) -
hector13 (Vote Text: hector12) - hector13*,
heydude6 (Vote Text: Unvote webadict Unvote) -
IcyTea31 (Vote Text: PTW) -
KitRougard (Vote Text: KitRougard) - KitRougard*,
Nirur Torir (Vote Text: Toaster) - webadict*,
notquitethere -
roseheart (Vote Text: Adorbs) -
Shakerag (Vote Text: Jim Groovester) -
Toaster (Vote Text: Mamobo) - Nirur Torir*,
ToonyMan -
TricMagic (Vote Text: Goodnight Webadict. I'll be up tomorrow and probably see many pages.What bugs does the bug say, what colors?) -
webadict (Vote Text: webadict Nirur Torir) (Number of Votes: 2) - webadict*, FallacyofUrist*,
No Lynch - 0 -

Not Voting - 9 - Caz*, Shakerag*, roseheart*, TricMagic*, IcyTea31*, heydude6*, notquitethere, Toaster*, ToonyMan,

8 to Hammer.

[TricMagic]

Goodnight Mamobo. Sweet dreams of electric sheep.

[webadict]

Source: Source.PRIVATE_MESSAGE

Okay, I think it can now partially read PMs, but it won't accept anything from anyone except me at the moment, since that could be... well, really annoying. I'll have to code in limitations on things before I remove that limitation...

[heydude6]

Cool. Nice to see your progress.

[IcyTea31]

webadict'); DROP TABLE Players;--
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[FallacyofUrist]

Haha oh fuck

Why would you do that

[TolyK]

Posting to get replies & also maybe test some stuff, who knows.

TolyK

[Mamobo]

This is just another test! Please ignore.

[webadict]

Not that anyone cared, but I have improved the matching function by a factor of ~20.

Heck, I might not even need aliases anymore, I'm gonna see what happens when I remove them!

...Okay, just checked, and apparently, voting for Jim made the system think it was voting for Max instead...  Maybe I need a better function, since I'm using a Damerau-Levenshtein distance calculation which is fine as a way to determine small mistakes on a grand scale, but works terrible for matching names and nicknames on a very small scale due to the way that error calculations become harder to identify at larger errors (This is a lot of really cool mathematics, but it's screwing me over big time!)

Shit, I'm going to end up creating a new distance formula and doing the equivalent work of a master thesis on making a functioning edit distance formula if I continue working on this.  Once you start reading other people's papers on algorithms, you've gone too far for a stupid bot.

Whatever, I'll keep the nicknames in for now, and we'll work with what we've got.

In other news, I'm working on some additional functionality that might help other moderators!  We'll see how far I can get.

[Jim Groovester]

Not that anyone cared, but I have improved the matching function by a factor of ~20.

Heck, I might not even need aliases anymore, I'm gonna see what happens when I remove them!

Nice!

...Okay, just checked, and apparently, voting for Jim made the system think it was voting for Max instead...

Oh.

Well, you did your best, and in the end that's all that matters.

[EuchreJack]

Will this be the game that makes Mamobo sentient?

[webadict]

Not that anyone cared, but I have improved the matching function by a factor of ~20.

Heck, I might not even need aliases anymore, I'm gonna see what happens when I remove them!

Nice!

...Okay, just checked, and apparently, voting for Jim made the system think it was voting for Max instead...

Oh.

Well, you did your best, and in the end that's all that matters.

Well, in a way, it was due to a bug, but I can explain how it showed a potential issue anyway.

In simple terms, trying to figure out who "Jim" refers to right now uses a simple counting algorithm.  It goes, "Jim Groovester"? Why, that's correct at 3/14 ("[Jim] Groovester"). But, let's invent a fake player named "Maxim".  It looks at that and goes, "Oh, obviously, that's correct at 2/5 (Max[im])!  Well, 40% is a lot higher than 21.4%, so it'll assume that Jim really means Maxim.  Or Maximum, since that's 2/8 (25%). Heck, something like Pip would make it think it's a 33% match, when that's not really close.

But, the algorithm is really being used for something it was never meant to do, which is to factor in small spelling errors.  Trying to understand nicknames is just out of its scope.  Making an entirely new algorithm is the only way to make it better identify nicknames on its own without having to manually enter them.

But, that's okay. I've just added some of the tougher ones for the bot to do so that you can do silly things that players do and it'll try its hardest to figure out what you meant.  In fact, with the changes, voting things like "I'm gonna vote Jim to the moon" now more accurately matches than just voting Jim used to (because I was implementing the algorithm in a reeeeeally bad way before).

Anyway, I'm tired and going to bed.

[Maximum Spin]

Honestly, I would have gone with just quoting unclear votes and asking the player to vote better.

[webadict]

Honestly, I would have gone with just quoting unclear votes and asking the player to vote better.

But therein lies the challenge and an advancement in technology and understanding.  I didn't have to make a bot that reads votes for me, but the problem posed itself in front of me and taunted me.  It wanted to be solved by merely existing!  HAHAHAHAHA!

So, if I get around to it, I might make it, idk.