[Erwin]

Originally posted by trilOByte
The interesting thing is if you use the java client included, the bot seems *much* smarter. It's the character length limitation which dumbs down the conversation.

The bot *seems* much smarter when the conversation is a quick succession of brief exchanges. It seems as though it follows the conversation.

Part of the problem is that in a chat, the conversation is linear.

In a forum, with multiple threads happening at once, the bot treats it all as one linear conversation, so it gets confused with names and topics, and comes across as dumb.

I suspect that if you restrict the bot to only 1 thread he may appear smarter.