#windowmaker House rules




Section one: 1. Applicable



These Rules (Section 1.1 and beyond) apply to everyone, except the stated...


In english, rules can be made and broken by the Channel Manager and 2nd in Charge, both parties are not bound by these rules. Everyone else has to respect the house rules, and any 'realtime' rule changes are made by the Channel Manager, that are not listed in this file.

Upon entering the channel, the house rules will apply by default. If you find just unacceptable or don't aggree with it, don't enter the channel or leave the channel.

Section one: 1.1 Rules broken



When Rules are broken, there are many options available to ops


  • A Warning

  • A single IRC Kick

  • A IRC /zap (kick/ban with a timelimit)

  • A Temporary Ban (less than one day)

  • A Permanent Ban

  • Shitlisted

    • Depending on the conduct of the offending user, any of these options are entirely valid, tho the use of a permanent ban and shitlisting will need prior approval from the Channel Manager or 2nd in Charge, obviously with good reason.

    We encourage Ops to have a small amount of restraint to other users, and only use a /kick or /zap only when absolutely needed. Again this depends on the conduct of the offending user.

    Kicking other ops is fine, only when the offenders (the person receiving the kick) normal X access is lower. Obviously if the offenders access is the same or zero, then a kick/ban/zap is tolerated. Multiple kicking and banning is not tolerated (aka kick/zap wars). Any serious misconduct by any Op, should be reported to either Channel Manager or 2nd In Charge, with channel and private logs handy.

    Section two: 2. General Conduct



    This applys to both op's and non-ops.. and includes private and public messages

    What is deemed unacceptable in channel:

    1. Childish Behaviour

    2. Trolling and other annoying behaviour

    3. Constant Arguing between 2 or more parties

    4. Verbal Attacks

    5. Slandering

    6. Imitating another user

    7. Ban evasion

    8. Excessive elite (l33t) speak

    9. On event messages

    10. Excessive flooding of anysort (msgs/notice/public msgs/ctcp/dcc/joining/parting)

    11. Poking and prodding other users machines

    12. No Mirc colors or *excessive* bold/underline

    Any Communication is subject to many different interpretations, but Ops will judge what is deemed unsuitable, with only the Channel Manager or 2nd in Charge can override actions taken by an Operator. With all Channel Operators to respect and honor the decision by either Channel Manager or 2nd in Charge.

    Section three: 3. Op Conduct



    This applys to operators .. and includes private and public messages
    1. Op'ing another user
      2. The channel manager decides what users may be op'd, noone else. Any person that the channel manager approves as an op will first be placed on a trial to determine if they can handle the responsibility without it going to their head. During the trial, any person may op the user and monitor them. Inform 400+ ops of your findings, if one is not present. The length of the trial will vary from user to user, but once completed, the channel manager will determine if the user will be added to X.

      Operators should not op non-ops that have not been approved by the Channel Manager, and are not in the ops list The Operator will take responsibility for any actions of the "op'd non-op".

      The Operator will be asked to cease op'ing non-op(s) by either the Channel Manager or 2nd in Charge, if mediation regarding this problem between the Operator and the Channel Manager or 2iC fails, The Operator may lose there ops and/or access, or even being ejected from the channel via kick/ban.
    2. Kicking
      3. see: Section 1.1 (paragraph 3)

    Section 4: 4. Definitions



    '2iC'/'2nd In Charge' the next person in charge of the channel.
    'IRC' Internet relay chat, realtime text messaging.
    'Warning' either a private or public message to a user about his or her unfavourable actions that have affected another user or channel.
    'op's/'op'/'operator' A trusted person who has access to X.
    'non-op' A normal user without X access, without an '@'.
    'Excessive' more than 4 lines of repeated text from the same user.




    Updates

    Update: March - Wednesday 28th - Posted by mdew
           added a definition 'execessive'
           Specified the flooding terms
           Changed W-bot->X
           Increased the Title size
           misc Font changes
    Orginal: February - Tuesday 13th - Posted by mdew
           Just the start of the whole article.