What is the point of ChatBots? (Poll added)

[$trinick]

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away... the world of Blockland existed without chat bots. One mysterious wizard under the name Sir NiXiLL created a chat based utility to connect Blockland chat with the Omegle service. This dark wizardry was admired by all, and sparked interest in more chat based utilities. Other apprentice wizards went about creating utilities to play games in chat and perform various other functions accessible to the entire server. As time went on, the point of these chat utilities was diluted until new creations were shells of previous generations and simply responded with text to direct input commands. While many have disliked these bots from the beginning, these bastardized versions created by new scripters are what are truly annoying and disgusting.

[Ad Bot]

[elm]

Quick, someone make a chatbot that connects to Cleverbot.com!

[hodototman]

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away... the world of Blockland existed without chat bots. One mysterious wizard under the name Sir NiXiLL created a chat based utility to connect Blockland chat with the Omegle service. This dark wizardry was admired by all, and sparked interest in more chat based utilities. Other apprentice wizards went about creating utilities to play games in chat and perform various other functions accessible to the entire server. As time went on, the point of these chat utilities was diluted until new creations were shells of previous generations and simply responded with text to direct input commands. While many have disliked these bots from the beginning, these bastardized versions created by new scripters are what are truly annoying and disgusting.

oh my god just as i started reading, this came on

[Port]

Quick, someone make a chatbot that connects to Cleverbot.com!

[Zeblote]

who cares

[Sentry]

If anyone makes any chatbots at least make them useful by making them give helpful information and such.

A few examples;
"There is [Insert Number] Bricks on this server."
"You can donate at [Insert Link]. It helps out the server a lot!"
"You can duplicate buildings with a tool called the duplicator. Type /duplicator in chat to spawn it!"

[Pecon]

If anyone makes any chatbots at least make them useful by making them give helpful information and such.

A few examples;
"There is [Insert Number] Bricks on this server."
"You can donate at [Insert Link]. It helps out the server a lot!"
"You can duplicate buildings with a tool called the duplicator. Type /duplicator in chat to spawn it!"

Those wouldn't be done by a chatbot though, that would be done by a loop of server-sided messages.

[Port]

who cares

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[Zeblote]

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That doesn't answer the question

[Sentry]

That doesn't answer the question

He's pointing out how idiotic you are. The simple "..." means hes ticked off because you don't see why it shouldn't be done.

[Port]

He's pointing out how idiotic you are. The simple "..." means hes ticked off because you don't see why it can't be done.

Never said it couldn't be done (it's been done before), I was just saying that it shouldn't be done.

[ChexGuy331]

NOT NOW I'M TAKING A CRAP

[Aide33]

Chatbots are for lazy script kiddies who can't make GUIs

[$trinick]

script kiddies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie

Jesus loving christ you guys, why can't you guys understand that a script kiddie isn't a child that makes scripts. It's a different thing all together and it's infuriating that you guys keep misusing the term.

[LoLBert]

Woah. Everybody is very serious about this eh