CuriousPuppy
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ORIGINAL: ModeratorOne Great ideas! I dont know much about the IRC or chat system myself. I think I know enough to op myself if there is a problem and now we have regular mods in the chatrooms that take care of disruptive users. I have suggested posting a list of commands and will pass that idea along again. From what I understand you do not need an IRC client like mIRC it should load automatically when you hit the chatroom button, though some people prefer to use mIRC. The questions I have with the chats are who will host them? Any volunteers please PM me or email [email protected] or post here. And possibly a bigger question would be how do we notify all the users about a scheduled chat. I suppose its possible to use a collarme mail list and mail every single user about the chat, but I am not so sure thats a great idea. The majority of the users dont look at the forum either, so posting it here wouldnt help all that much. What do you guys suggest? Like others have said, a regular IRC program tends to work much better than the various java/perl/cgi/etc based irc chat programs. I didn't really find the chat thing on the site to run all that well on my system so decided that it was partly a good reason to just let it be. But more importantly, I avoided looking to see if it was irc or some other wierd thing because I didn't see anything about what the chat was running/what the server was/etc because in the past I've seen site owners get a bit upset when people did that in the past on other sites. anyways, I just pulled the info out of the chat page's html :) The server is chat.collarme.com The default channel is #lobby For the curious, basic instructions on using mIRC (and most other irc programs) to connect to it are as follows. -Download your favorite irc program (mIRC, PIRCH, BitchX, etc), use google to find it if need be or try www.mirc.com www.pirch.com and www.bitchx.com for downloads. -Install it, open it up, and cancel away any question box asking you what server and such that you want to connect to. -At this point, you will most likely have a blank window with lots of buttonts and a box you can type in at the bottom. -Some will realize at this point that BitchX was a cool name but not nearly as much fun to learn if you were new. -type /nick MyNick then press enter, replace MyNick with whatever you want to call yourself. -type /server chat.collarme.com and again hit enter. -In most IRC programs you can search through the /list by typing /list word. For example /list bondage would give you a list of all channels that had bondage in the name or topic. -To get a channel (room) listing, type /list and hit enter. You can usually double click a channel to join it in most IRC programs. -If you know what channel you want to join you can skip /list and just type /join #ChannelName, case of the letters matters not... as an example... /join #lobby and hit enter to join it :). -You can use /me to indicate actions, sometimes people think of them as emotes.
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