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Pandorabots Policy — Types of pandorabots

Pandorabots promotes the use of pandorabots (chatbots) that have a positive effect on society. Pandorabots prohibits chatbots that have a negative effect on society. Please read the next sections to get an idea of what we allow, and what we prohibit. Please see Pandorabots Policy Guidelines for the complete details. If you have any questions about the suitability of your pandorabot, please email info@pandorabots.com.

Allowed Types of Pandorabots on the Free Community Server

Over the years people have come up with an endless variety of applications for pandorabots. Here is a list of some the most interesting examples. Be creative, try to think of a new application on your own!

• Teacher Bots including ESL
• Personal Companion
• Game Bots
• Bots promoting a commercial product
• Second Life and Virtual World Bots
• Web Page Bots
• IM Bots
• Bots with Oddcast/Sitepal Avatars
• Expert Bots
• Celebrity Bots
• Historical Person Bots
• Literary Character Bots

Not Allowed on Pandorabots

Pandorabots discourages offensive bots from its free server. Please use care when creating the content for your pandorabot. Think carefully about the audience of potential clients who might end up talking with your pandorabot.

• You may not create Adult Entertainment Oriented pandorabots
• pandorabots may not be racist, sexist, defamatory, obscene, libelous or use offensive language.
• pandorabots may not deceive or defraud clients
• pandorabots must be safe for children
• pandorabots may not violate privacy rights of third parties
• pandorabots may not violate publicity rights of third parties
• pandorabots may not disseminate spam
• pandorabots may not disseminate destructive content (virues, malware, etc.)

Pandorabots Community Server Policies

Resource usage

Pandorabots provides a (free) Community Server at www.pandorabots.com. This server is intended for botmasters to experiment with new AIML bots that use limited resources. The Community Server is home to more than 200,000 bots created by more than 150,000 botmasters. Pandorabots has served more than 1.2 billion interactions. Please remember you are sharing resources with all these pandorabots and their botmasters.

If the Community Server resource limitations are inadequate, please contact Pandorabots at info@pandorabots.com to learn about our other alternatives.

In any event Pandorabots reserves the right to remove, modify or disable a pandorabot on the Community Server when we deem that the pandorabot misuses the Community Server resources. The types of issues that may lead to intervention by Pandorabots include (but are not limited to) to these circumstances:

• Use of automated scripts to make your pandorabot talk to itself or another bot or script
• The number of daily interactions exceeds 50,000 (Game Developers and others - please contact us at info@pandorabots for other arrangements supporting highly interactive pandorabots)
• The number of pandorabots created in your account exceeds 20
• The amount of AIML in your pandorabot(s) exceeds 100,000 categories
• The number of bot properties exceeds 200
• In any situation where Pandorabots determines that your pandorabots are using too many resources on the free Community Server

If you need more resources, please contact info@pandorabots.com.

Revision:Pandorabots Policy — Types of pandorabots 1004-20130504

Last update:

Feb 15, 2014