Anything goes

Loser04 · Posted: Jan 26, 2007 2:42pm Post subject:

It's a chatroom? Yes it is.. IRC these days though isnt just a wide spand chatroom like EFnet, or AOL chats or whatever that crap is.. Alot of people have really close friends on IRC, if you don't set your damn rules, IRC aint worth using.. It would be like... National-Anarchy... HAHA

SATAN-HHH · Eleet Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Texas

Agreed.

Crash_ChatNSN · Posted: Jan 28, 2007 7:55am Post subject:

Nothing wrong with anarchy Wink

*me looks at his mohawk on top of his head* :\ i guess its a punk thing you guys wont understand Wink

Speedhawk · none Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 10

I'm a punk rocker as well.. so yes Crash_ChatNSN I get what your saying.

Personally, I do enjoy my networks getting a little on the chaotic side. It gives myself and the other admins something to monitor when our own personal channels are quiet.

However on the otherside of the coin, I do moderate a lot of the on goings on the network to ensure a peaceful and friendly place for those who wish to experence that.

If morons care to log on and flood each other's personal channels all day long, I really don't care, it is when they cross the line that I will take action. Serious Action, No warnings available for those who break the rules and who endevour to make other users hell just for the sheer fun of it.

Most of the channels active so far often have admins chatting in them, a lot of our users have a good relationship with the staff of the network. This keeps us in check of what is going on without having to come down and physically moderate the network.

We do have some strict policies though, (DDOS, Nick Stealing, War Bots/Clones, Even to an extent porn, warez and mp3 (depending on the situation) Are not welcome.

I guess what I am saying is that our network is free, you can do what you want, however if we do decide you are pushing the boundary of violating our policies too far we will act.

But thats how I like it, thats how I have always wanted to have IRC. Hopefully that is how it will stay.

irc://irc.cube-its.net
irc://irc.audnet.net

Crash_ChatNSN · Posted: Jan 31, 2007 8:36am Post subject:

hawk i was on your network yesterday alot of my old friends are on there lol

Spec-Ops · none Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 19

Hmm...

Crash_ChatNSN · Posted: Feb 11, 2007 2:38pm Post subject:

hmm what?

NightWing{s} · none Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

This issue is one for each server to decided on its own. My server has a no warez policy and we do enforce it, our rule state we can and will close room that deal with ilegal subjects and the owners/ops of those room are subject to k-line.

Warez and its related subjects have no place on our server, since we dont deal with any kind of file trading. That is us it may not be you, remember ymmv with any kind of censorship.

mage · Newbie Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 80

my network is pretty clear with the censorship: www.fusionchat.org/aup.html

the only channels we monitor are the 2 official rooms, the rest is reserved to the channel founders rules. We do censor a minimum set of things

Child porn
Racial Slurs
Warez Advertisement

which are applied network wide. While we won't terminate a channel where people says 'hey waddup nig..' or 'waddup wig..' always and only if it's not used to offend a person. We won't tolerate things such as neo-nazi, white pride, anti-semitism, anti-muslim, anti-christianity organisations or others of the sort.

davemave · none Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 3

mage,
How often do you have to ban users for not obeying to the rules? And is there a lot of racial conflict?

NightWing{s} · none Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 33

As far as banning goes, the only offence for which a person is banned with out warning would be warez. All others would be warned before being banned.

Paul-M · none Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 6

my policies

If it's illegal or poses a security risk to the server = instant ban/k-line
Unauthorised bots = k-line
Abusive behaviour = warning, and a ban if it continues
IRCops decisions are always final

keeps my IRC server a friendly place (will disclose address when I have more servers and add it to search IRC which I am hoping is soon)

ircmojo · Posted: Sep 02, 2007 6:26pm Post subject:

mage · Newbie Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 80

dave: we have rarely ever banned a user.

When IRC was invented,it was invented just as well as many other internet based services in the hope that they'd be useful for a community. IRC is a very old protocol and back then I'm not sure what was the role of the security or censorship or how important it was in the head of a programmer.

There's a trend to corrupt, break in, sniff, spam, etc on everything on the internet. So yes, netadmins now have more things to deal with than the netadmins from back then. There are plenty of resources now but so are the amount of issues when it comes to run an IRC Network.

Censorship is necessary. A clear AUP/TOS is necessary. There always be somebody breaking the rules but the question is: Are they breaking the rules when a set of rules isn't set? I can take a wild guess and say that spamming irc networks in a irc channel is just gay but if they don't expressely forbid it in their tos is that illegal?
Despite of oneself's moral (now-a-days some people don't have moral at all) a set of rules and restrictions must exist and be clear and accessible for everyone.

That's not to say that TOUGH rules are needed. But rules are needed.
We have said more or less the same along these pages of posts so I don't want to sound redundant.
However, if anybody feels like I could give them a hand with rules and stuff don't hestiate to contact me. And no, i don't want an oline or a place in the staff of your network so don't worry lol