[Sanni]

ok our forum/sql guru OzRoy (i am posting on his behalf because he doesnt currently have a forum account here) created a time delay feature for the bot response times. These code changes will make the bot post randomly between a time delay of 30 secs to 2 mins

this has only been tested in VB 2.2.6 btw

to get the random response delay times modify the following:
showthread.php
stalkerbot.php

***********showthread.php************

Find the SQL statement that looks like:
$getpostids=$DB_site->query("
        SELECT post.postid FROM post
        WHERE post.threadid='$threadid' AND post.visible=1
        ORDER BY dateline $postorder LIMIT ".($limitlower-1).",$perpage
");

and replace it with:

$getpostids=$DB_site->query("
        SELECT post.postid FROM post
        WHERE post.threadid='$threadid' AND post.visible=1 AND post.dateline <= ".time()."
        ORDER BY dateline $postorder LIMIT ".($limitlower-1).",$perpage
");

************edit the file tomstalkerbot.php************


add the following lines (up the top somewhere)

define("EARLIEST_REPLY", 20);
define("LATEST_REPLY", 120);
define ("EARLIEST_REPLY", 20);
define("LATEST_REPLY", 120);

Then find the line that looks like:

$ttb_time = time() + rand(1,5);

And change it to:

$ttb_time = time() + rand(EARLIEST_REPLY,LATEST_REPLY);

thats it!

we have this feature running on our forums at http://www.ozforums.com Atm we are training the bot up prior to public release. Once it is publically available i'll post a link to where you can see a live demo of this feature in action (prolly some point later on tonight)