Editing Rietenpetardat (section)

=== Initial version ===
The first version was an implementation of a [[wikipedia:Markov_chain|Markov chain]] from an IRC chatbot whose [https://github.com/dreignier/cgbot-core source code had been published on GitHub]. This code was modified so that at startup it would read messages, as training data, from a text file and respond to input messages containing the bot's name according to the training data (which was the message history from the #bucuresti-general channel from OKPR V2) and the parameters given to the Markov chain. Because of the chaotic nature of the chat and the shortcomings of the Markov chain, the algorithm could not respond coherently to messages or hold a conversation, and much of the time, it sent completely random sentences. However, it did provide a lot of entertainment for the community, especially in situations where the bot's answer coincidentally matched the question it was asked.

As per the GPL3 license under which the original IRC chatbot code is subject, the modified source code for rietenpetardat can be found here: https://github.com/Edward205/markov-discord-bot

The first tests of this version were done starting with 29th of August 2022 and it was released on the OKPR Discord server the next day.