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#40single FAQ
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First a note about Ops and their relationship with each other and #40single. The Ops on #40single are expected to support these guidelines and to support each other in channel. If there is any question about an action taken by an Op, please take it up with that Op in private, not in open channel. If there is any doubt about an action, whether it is a kick/ban or otherwise, please error on the side of support for your fellow Ops. If there needs to be a corrective action, as in an accidental kick or ban, or if , for example a newbie is in the "bad channels", take a moment to ask him to leave those channels. If he/she does, they should be welcomed back with a brief explaination of our feelings about them. We can all benifit from a small dose of understanding and tolerance.

The guidelines for #40single are general in nature. We have no desire to treat our folks as children or to create a "police state" environment. We do have a few standards that we expect to be upheld on #40single. Repeated violation of any of these standards will be considered grounds for permanent ejection from the channel.

EvilChime once said: "This channel was created as a 'safe haven' for folks to enjoy themselves without worry about offensive behavior"... That statement is the foundation for our guidelines.

* We do not condone any form of patently offensive behavior *

Maintaining the integrity of the channel is the responsibility of ALL its members. It is the responsibility of the ops to preserve the standards on the channel as they are outlined here. They make the channel what it is and how it appears to the new people joining the channel. We all want #40single to live up to the phrase "clean and friendly" that we so often advertise in our topic.

Topics Covered Here

  • AOPs and your Access list - Making it easy to enjoy your AOPs yet making it difficult to violate.
  • Autos, remotes, etc - Avoiding problems with autos, remotes, etc.
  • Bans - Placing proper bans is important but don't ban the world or spin your wheels.
  • Bots and lurkers - Bots of any kind are not welcome.
  • Bad Channels - The bad list - if they're there, they don't need to be here.
  • Children - They might be yours, be nice to them as you send them on their way.
  • Kicks - Kicks for fun are not fun.
  • Language - Keeping it clean for all of us.
  • Logging - Keeping a record just in case there is a problem developing.
  • Ops @ - The basics for everyone; goes beyond social oping.
  • De Oping - Why, when, and how to get it back - using services more effectively.
  • Nicks vs Names, Foul Nicks etc - Some don't want to use their names but prefer their carefully chosen nicks. No foul nicks.
  • Popups - Macros - WAVs - This is a "chat" channel so keep that in mind while you are having fun.
  • Services abuse - Services abuse of any kind will not be tolerated
  • Slurs - Staying away from the insults.

If you think of other topics that you feel that should be covered here, please suggest them to sparkey.

AOPs and the ACCESS List

Only REGISTERED nicks will be kept on the AOPs list. This list is reviewed often and if your nick expires, it will be removed from the AOPs list automatically by services. This is not a channel setting but a default on DALnet. Nickserv expires nicks that have not been identified within the last 30 days (as of October 2000). Identify to your nick to get your ops automatically and preserve your nick.

As an Auto Op you will be oped by chanserv whenever you enter the channel. Some of you have provided chanserv additional addresses to be considered valid for you in your ACCESS list. This list is in nickserv and is linked to your nick. There have been numerous problems in many channels lately relating directly to ACCESS list problems. Although it makes it easier on you, by not requiring you to "Identify" as often, you also make it easier for someone to pirate your nick when you have entries in your ACCESS list. Our recommendation is that you keep your access list clean by deleting all entries in it and identify when asked to do so by nickserv. If this seems like a lot of trouble, you might want to use an alias or a popup to identify with (see the "Tech Stuff" link). If you want more information on nickserv and the ACCESS list, use the command: /nickserv help access or, click on NICKSERV in the index to the left. You are the only one responsible for your ACCESS list and anyone oped using your address. Occurences of others using your address and being oped will prompt swift removal of your nick from the AOPs list.

If you are an op in the channel and don't recognize someone that is opped by chanserv, you can check to see why they are opped by using this command: /chanserv why #40single nick and look for the reply in status. Use the appropriate nick. This will tell you why that person is opped. If you find it is someone getting opped because of someone else's ACCESS list, deop them immediately and contact one of the sops or the founder to have that person removed from the AOP list. Always be sure to log these situations. Back to the top.

Bad Channels

The question asked so often is: "What is our position on channels that a person is in when he joins #40single?" The immediate ejection of someone from #40single is ENCOURAGED if that person is in channels that are obviously kiddie porn/sex, animal porn/sex, and any form of violence. This is intended to cover teen sex channels, mother/daughter, father/daughter, mother/son, father/son, family sex/porn, and any form of animal/human sexual behaviour. Rape is considered to be one of the worst kinds of violence. Many women consider feminine humiliation as violence and we will support that stand. Just because a channel name has the word "sex" in it does not mean you should kick someone. Channel names like these are not channel names that should elicit an automatic kick: #MySexLife, #3waySex, #SexEducation, etc. Let's use a little common sense when we look at these things.. Back to the top.

Language

Vulgarity, profanity, harrassment, intentional hurtful statements, and indecent language will be considered cause for dismissal from the channel. Ops should not hesitate to warn anyone violating this guideline. A repeat violation should be considered "cause" and ejection (kick) is prudent. Do NOT post private messages to the channel. Your private messages should remain private and do not belong in public. Back to the top.

Slurs

Calling someone a derogatory name might be amusing to you and even to the other person, but it might well be misconstrued or be offensive to others in channel. Unkind, or derogatory references to race, religion, ethnic background, sexual orientation, or physical attributes or abilities will not be tolerated. This will be considered to include all the slang terms as well as specific terms as well as "Bashing", both female AND male. If you have any question about whether a term is proper or not, it must pass the "unkind and derogatory" test in context. The use of slang references to demean anyone will be considered a violation or these guidelines. Simply taking a word out of context will not automatically be considered as evidence that someone is violating these guidelines. Back to the top.

Logging

Everyone that is acting in the position of a channel operator (has ops) is encouraged to LOG the channel and LOG the status window. Turn logging on by typing the command /log on and it will log the current window.Logging provides a documented record if there is any question of the activity in the channel. Remember too, that logging private chats can help prevent any misunderstandings later. That applies to EVERYONE. It is recommended that the Channel Ops keep an eye on the status window. Many useful things appear there including notices from Nickserv, Chanserv, the IRC ops, and, if you have "auto whois on join" (see the "Useful Stuff" link) in your remotes, you will get a whois on everyone that joins the channel. Clearing your log often is ok but log files generally don't generally become huge since they are simple text files. Also, if there is any reason to believe that an activity in the channel will be questioned, save the log (rename it and save it). Logs that are expected to be used to prove abuse of guidelines must be the entire log from sign on to sign off, showing dates and times. Accusations that are not accompanied by logs or other documentation will carry little weight. Logs may be compared to authenticate claims. Back to the top.

Giving Ops @

Ops is NOT a social thing. Ops should be given to well known, responsible individuals. The channel Ops are responsible for the management of the channel. They are given the ability to take care of the channel and keep it within the guidelines we all want to preserve. Ops should be known amongst the ops group. Do not op someone just because they are your friend or because they have ops on another channel. Guidelines for this channel may not be the same as those for another channel. Do not op someone that is in many other channels. People that are in many channels can't be paying much attention to any of them.

Newbies and strangers should NEVER be opped.

Do NOT op somone so THEY can kick someone that is bothering them! If someone in channel is being bothered in private, ask them to handle it in private. Remind them that they can ignore the offender. Should someone be a problem to the channel in general, boot them.

If you don't know someone, don't op them. If in doubt, don't op. Anyone that has been given ops that is NOT an AOP and is idle for an extended period should be de-oped.

SOPs - Adding someone to the AOPs list should be done with the agreement of two or more SOPs and that person should be recognized as a responsible op candidate by their fellow ops. Please remind anyone desiring to be an AOP that spending their time in many channels, especially as op, leaves little time to pay attention in #40single. This is a negative incentive. AOPs for social reasons is not responsible or acceptable. Back to the top.

De Oping

Any time we have more Ops on the channel than we have non ops, it can be intimidating to folks that join the channel. As an AOP, you can improve that situation. De op yourself and enjoy the channel while still maintaining the ability to have ops. A simple command to Chanserv will get your ops back.
That command is: /chanserv op #40single yournickhere
Anytime you are setting yourself away, or you are going to be away from the computer for any extended length of time, you should de op youself so others will not think you are "watching the channel". Back to the top.

Bans

When you find it necessary to set a ban, you should take moment to consider what you are doing. It is always prudent to set a general ban first. A general ban will ban everyone at a particular Internet Service Provider (ISP) with the address of the one you are banning. Example: You are banning some pervert with the nick of "perveted1" and his address is daperv@mile4.concentric.net ... Your first ban should be placed on *!*@mile4.concentric.net ... You will find that this is most helpful if you are being invaded by some perv using many different nicks. One ban will be effective enough to get all his nicks so all you have to do is kick each nick. Once you have the bad guy off the channel, you can then place a specific ban so he can't just dial back into his ISP and come right back into the channel. That ban takes the form:
*!*daperv@*.concentric.net ... which bans his ID at any address using any nick. General bans like *!*@*.concentric.net should be lifted as soon as possible, as it bans everyone at "concentric.net". Note that if the ID contained in the perv's address were longer than 7 characters it is good practice to trim the front of the ID like this: The ID is "iamdaperv@mile4.concentric.net". In this case, a proper specific ban would be "*!*aperv@*.concentric.net". The form of the ban as typed is "/mode #40single +b *!*aperv@*.concentric.net". Back to the top.

Bots and Lurkers

Bots are NOT welcome on #40single. Any time you can identify a bot that's joined... ban and kick it. Bots are scripts or programs running on a computer and they can be helpful in administering a busy channel or they can be malicious. Most of the Bots that are out there which DON'T belong to a particular channel are malicious. Many bots grab nicks and email addresses and pass them outside a channel for spammers, or mass advertisers and inviters. Others are used by malicious folks to raid a channel. BAN them all!

Lurkers are nicks that join and never say anything. Anyone should be given a little time to watch and see if they like what they see... but if they don't talk in channel, or are in many other channels and don't speak, escort them out. Someone that joins and doesn't have much to say is different. We all get distracted or tied up from time to time. Just keep an eye on them ;) ... A channel regular that is idle for long periods of time are not a threat and aren't considered lurkers. Anyone that has been given ops that is NOT an AOP and is idle for an extended period should be de-oped. Back to the top.

Nicks vs Names

Many people on IRC prefer to be known by their nick rather than by their real name. I am one of those people. Be sure that you don't call someone by their name in channel when they would prefer using their nick. To be safe, it is always better to use only nicks in channel. The use of names off channel is a personal preference. Let's respect those that don't care for all the strangers knowing, much less using their names. Never assume just because someone has a name listed in their "whois" that they want you to use it or, in the case of some, that they even realize it is there. Also do not assume that just because it appears that the name is "real" that it is. Many choose to place a totally bogus name in their IRC client. Foul nicks don't fly (pun intended). Seriously, let's don't use nicks that contain any of those words we don't care for in the "language". Also, nicks containing such as "slut", "ass", "prick" etc are unacceptable. Folks using them should be asked to change them. Folks with ops will lose ops if they use such nicks. Back to the top.

Children in Channel

From time to time we find children joining our channel. Those children that join the channel usually leave quickly. When we identify one of the youngsters that have joined the channel, we should alert the rest of the people in channel, then attempt to communicate with him/her and encourage them nicely to leave the channel. This is an adult channel and they will be better served on other channels. These children should be treated with respect and you should be aware that from time to time children of our regulars find their way to #40single one way or another. Our own children are welcome and we should be aware that they may come to the channel looking for one of their parents or for help. Try to be as helpful as possible in these cases. Back to the top.

Popups, Macros, and WAVs

Popups, macros, and WAVs are permitted in channel. We encourage folks to use them with discretion. Please be mindful of the chat in the channel and not make it difficult to maintain that flow because of the popups or macros.

Everyone enjoys a WAV or an MP3 every now and then. Some of the WAVs that are enjoyed may be less desirable or even totally disliked by others. It is obvious that deleting the wav will rid oneself of the WAV itself, but we feel that the names of WAVs should pass the "offensive" test. Therefore, we must insist that WAVs which have titles that are offensive not be played in #40single. When playing WAVs, it isn't necessary or desirable to repeatedly tell everyone in channel how to retrieve your WAVs. The simple sending of a sound command will not disrupt the flow of conversation and will accomplish the playing. The same thing is true of MP3s. WAVGET and other programs designed to play MP#s have the option to turn the advertising and file information off. All of that excess just takes up chat space and really gets in the way more than does good. If someone is interested in the WAV, most already know how to either ask for it or utilize the "get". Back to the top.

Autos, remotes, etc.

Auto greets are frowned upon. They are not only impersonal, but are, in many cases, when run by those that are not regulars on the channel, contrary to what we would like to portray to anyone joining #40single. Remotes used for doing anything automatically in channel, kicks, bans, or anything else are discouraged as they have been known to cause more trouble than they prevent. The best monitor for the channel is a good op(s). Protection scripts are, for the most part, not necessary on DALnet. The use of protection scripts should be minamized to the point they don't get in the way of routine channel activity. Back to the top.

Kicks

Kicking someone for fun may appear like fun on the surface but to others in the channel it can appear as a very unfriendly way of treating someone. Kicks for fun are discouraged when there are any people in channel that are not VERY REGULAR and you are positive they will not become offended by such things. Kicking for entertainment should be avoided. Back to the top.

Services abuse

Services abuse of any kind will not be tolerated and can reserve you a spot on the akick list. Services abuse will be considered any of the following but not limited to: Mass inviting; mass advertising; nick impersonation; dodging/evading a ban in any manner; flooding; multiple clones; loss of service attacks of any kind; channel takeovers, attempted or otherwise. Logs must accompany any claims that someone was abusing. Back to the top.