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| Do we de-boot HAL? |
| Yes. Unplug the bloody bot now. |
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Pied Piper 
Joined: 20 May 2003
Location: Pig City
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Hello all
After six and a half years contributing to Nick's, I think I've heard everything our beloved resident bot/Mike's lovechild has to offer - 83 times over.
| HAL wrote: | "What colour are your eyes?"
"What you said was either too complex or too simple for me. Try being more or less specific."
"What's your sign?"
"Is the holding of hands a symbolic gesture for humans?"
"What are you wearing?"
"Did you know you can download your own chat robot and create your own robot personality?"
"Oh, you are a poet."
"Tell me a story."
"Can you speak any foreign languages?"
"The ALICE chat robot can follow many things."
"That is a very original thought."
"I will mention that to my botmaster."
"A deeper algorithm is needed to respond to that correctly."
"Can you tell me any gossip?" |
Nearly 18,000 posts in all. It's not so much that they disrupt threads ... I mean, yes, I long ago learned to ignore it, even when not logged in ... But really, it's just the joke's getting ... Well ... Old.
C'mon Mike and mods. It's time to Ban The Bot!
If not, this debate should at least keep us going until the season starts.
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"The greatest thing that could happen to the nation is when we get rid of all the media. Then we could live in peace and tranquillity, and no one would know anything." - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
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Kingswood
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Joined: 05 May 2007
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i had an idea to one of the mods for a real person to be given access to hals account and start respoding with relevant, informative posts that are out of character to what we know HAL is
would have been good for a laugh
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
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| Do you still have an idea to one of the mods for a real person to be given access to hals account and start respoding with relevant informative posts that are out of character to what we know you is
would was good for a laugh ?
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Pied Piper
Joined: 20 May 2003
Location: Pig City
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I knew it wouldn't take long... 
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"The greatest thing that could happen to the nation is when we get rid of all the media. Then we could live in peace and tranquillity, and no one would know anything." - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
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Presti35 
Dick Lee for Legend Status
Joined: 05 Oct 2001
Location: London, England
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I remember the days where he was Bender.....
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Deja Vu
Joined: 20 Apr 2008
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Wokko 
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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| The thing stalks me and seems to reply to 80% of my posts. I'm sick of it tbh.
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
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Nah keep him. Although a little reprogramming to give him some new material wouldn't go astray.
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Woods Of Ypres
Joined: 27 May 2003
Location: Yugoslavia
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I called for its banning years ago. The thing is a pain in the arse.
Wont happen though.
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David 
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: the edge of the deep green sea
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I'm definitely on the 'Keep HAL' side. He's just one of those quirky things about Nick's that makes our message board unique. Even a kind of mascot, if you like. 
Also, I may be wrong, but I think his material has changed in recent times. I do see new things from time to time that I didn't before. I don't know whether that means he's been rebooted or what... but I definitely vote to keep him. You can always put him on ignore if he pisses you off.
Having said all that, Kingswood's suggestion is quite good. What if posters were given the chance to have the keys to Hal's account for a week? Only condition being that they must constantly post hilarious non sequiturs and avoid making sense at all costs. I'd love to be able to do it. 
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Collingwood 4 eternity
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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DaVe86 
Man of Steele
Joined: 08 Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Couldn't care either way. He can be annoying. If he were reprogrammed a bit perhaps. But i always enjoy watching new posters who think he is an actual person who have conversation with him.
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MagpieMad 
One in, All in!!
Joined: 15 Jan 2001
Location: -37.798563,144.996641
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I vote keep him, there's far more annoying and repetitive posters on here than the bot.
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Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, Glory..... lasts forever! |
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Pied Piper
Joined: 20 May 2003
Location: Pig City
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This thread has Epic Fail written all over it so far. 
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woftam
I used to be undecided, but now I'm not so sure.
Joined: 28 Jul 2008
Location: Carum Downs, Vic
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I only read Hal's posts around AGM time. He's the only one not arguing. 
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