I get this when trying to read what keeps you busy.

The requested URL /blog/2008/08/19/when-people-talk-listen/ was not found on this server.

Dave: Various issues (mainly lack of time) are keeping me from finishing it. This goes for anybody, but if you are interested in helping me, I would greatly appreciate the help. I have a lot of cool projects planned that one of the MOD Team members has asked if he can steal part of it for v2, but I don’t have the time right now to do everything.

dogs and things: You didn’t find the post because it’s not public yet. I only started thinking about it during Londonvasion. There were several questions (some of them in the video, some not) about how to automatically flag spam. The challenge is that words have a different meaning in different context, so it’s not enough to just scan the words. I’m still working on how to approach it, and then will start posting during the development effort.

If it gets that far. There are plenty of other things on my plate at the moment.

I wonder what will come out of that hat finally.

The AI MOD can also run on a cron job, there´s three different ways of doing that explained in the topic I linked to, link to the posts dealing with that part can be found in the first post.

Although, I suspect you can come up with something better.

Do you have the link to that post with your thoughts on text analysis. I did try to use the search function before asking but didn´t find it.

@Michael,

Hello there.

Are you planning on releasing that almost finished MOD sometime?
I´d be interested in testing it, but I´m afraid I won´t be able to do much with an unfinished version.

Major stuff like using request_var() to sanitize all of the input variables would be too time-consuming and break too many existing MODs, so the dev team had to carefully pick their opportunities to integrate 3.x code backwards into the 2.x product.

I have looked at various AI bots over the years, but that’s not really what I want. What I had envisioned was something that would be run as a cron job and would provide search links to unanswered posts based on the text content. I have a post that I’ve started with some thoughts about text analysis that shows where I got bogged down in that MOD.

Mr. Bond, your safety from spam may be short lived. From what I have seen and read on various boards, spammers are starting to attack version 3 boards now too. It’s not anywhere close to what happens to an unprotected phpbb2 board, but the war against spam is far from over.

Nice reading you, intriguing comment you make.

As you know I’m pretty dumb when it comes to technical stuff so here´s the question: What does “backported” mean?
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Dave,

This weekend I went through this whole thread about an abandoned MOD, Forum AI v0.2.0. Amongst other things I learned that this MOD has the potential to do what you want. As it is it can be set to answer questions related to the phpBB FAQ. It would need some fine-tuning but I’m quite sure you could make it do more or less what you have in mind.

Very interesting MOD, I’m doing some basic experimenting with it when I´m bored and hope to be able to get it to do something along the lines you have in mind.

Allthough it’s an old MOD it installs perfectly on a modded phpBB2.0.23 with only one minor issue that can easily be solved.

Excuse me for the off-topic.