The IRC Channel Rules


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1. No Swearing! (Even if masked)

2. No Flooding in any manner, be it DCC, CTCP, Publics, Nukes, ICMP, ASCII art, etc! (3 consecutive repeats is considered a flood)

3. Do not offend, harrass, or cause contention with other channel users, helpers, trainees, ops, or bots!

4. No begging for Ops (or Voice)! Apply at http://application.celestar.com

5. No Opping others; The bots will do that.

6. Be friendly to all that join.

7. Help others where you can.

No public picture trading or general picture requests. View photos on the #Teens Gallery page at http://gallery.celestar.com

Never De-OP, Kick, or Ban official channel bots or ops

11. Report all problems and suspicious activities to Cougar at teens@celestar.com or your current shift RA.

12. Have FUN!!

13. No UnAuthorized Bots on the channel. Bots are approved by the 12t Administration

14. No Clones allowed! (Only one nick (login) per person allowed on channel)

15. No NetSex/Porn!!

No being on sex-related channels while on #Teens

No being horny or desperate

16. No Soliciting/Inviting to other channels. Also, no inviting to msg/dcc or other chat services such as other servers/icq/bbs/etc. 17. No Yelling! No excessive use of CAPS; No ALL CAPS lines! (Yelling on IRC is considered very rude; Caps in a proper sentence are fine)

18. No IDLING! You will be IDLE kicked, unless you are a Channel OP with authorization!

- Do not offend or cause contention with any channel OPS!

20. No unapproved IRC Scripts!! OPS may use scripts which don't cause any of the channel rules to be broken! (NO ON PUBLICS ALLOWED! - Aliases are Ok if triggered manually)

21. Do not publically gripe about the existing Channel Bots; Instead send your email recommendation and new ideas to: bots@celestar.com

22. Do not publically gripe about the existing Channel OPS; Instead report abuse and/or thoughts via email to: teens@celestar.com

Concerns with Trainees must be taken to their Trainer. View trainer list at http://trainlist.celsetar.com

23. All OPS (and those who have any access on channel bots) _MUST_ login and admin the channel for at least two hours twice a week (minimum of 4 hours a week) or they may be removed!

24. No Colors!!! Colors are not allowed on the channel at all. Most UNIX IRC users and many PC users cannot see colors; instead it just floods them.

25. No Wavs or MIDIs!! They are not allowed on the channel at all. Most UNIX IRC users and a large amount of PC users cannot hear wavs in real time; instead it just floods them.

policy26. IF anyone uses your account, YOU are responsible. (So do NOT allow anyone to have access!)

27. No Lame Nicks - All nicks are to be based on letters that we can pronounce. (You may use ONE (1) of these: ` ' ^ - _ but may NOT use: [ ] { } / | \ SEE the difference?!!) No lewd or offensive nicks.

-remove28. No Surveys (they are annoying to most users - Some may be temporarily approved by Channel RA's)

29. No on public commands such as !commands or fserves (they are annoying to most users - Some may be temporarily approved by Channel RA's)

30. No force floods - IE. Surveys, Polling, "Everyone type 9 if you like.....", etc. (they are annoying to most users - Some may be temporarily approved by Channel RA's)

31. No one is allowed to organize or claim authority for any Channel activity or affiliated event without prior approval of the Channel Manager.

32. No Smoking, Drinking alcohol, coffee, tea, or using Drugs while on the Channel; No chat which encourages such activities.

oppolicy-33. Trainees (level 75+) may choose to ask the Channel Manager for +v. '+v' = Trainee. No others should have it, except in a channel emergency. Ops do not give +v, ONLY bots and RA's do.

34. English is the official language of #Teens, since most of users are from English-speaking countries. This means that you may not speak another language without permission of an op in the channel who knows the language and can translate if asked.

oppolicy-35. Ops must conduct themselves honorably and appropriately on IRC at all times, regardless of network or channel or nick.

36. Respect the Ops, Trainees, Bots, AA's, RA's, 12t, 1p, and all IRCops! - Remember RA's hold the authority for channel administration during their assigned shift.

37. No religious fighting! - (#Teens maintains a freedom of religion policy - Please respect others' religious preferences)

38. New trainees will only be chosen from current users who are frequent channel users, who have been regulars for at least the last two months, talk well on the channel, know channel rules and bot commands and obey the rules, and are friends with the ops and other users.

39. No abusing bot commands (IE: `seen, Temple's replys, etc)!

40. No trout slaps!! (these are lame - actually all slapping is rude).

op policy-41. No changing the channel topic through W!

42. No warez!! (No illegally pirating software)

43. No stealing the nicks of #Teens OPS, Trainees, Helpers, or BOTS!

44. No posing as a #Teens OP, #Teens Trainee, CService representitive, ZT representive, or IRCop!

remove-copy-45. Show respect to all users and their beliefs!

46. No telling others to type ALT-F4, or other things that are harmful to them, their computers, or their connection!

47. No distributing (via dcc or other) lame files such as Script.ini or others listed here: SCRIPT.INI, etc.

48. No autogreets, auto-dcc's (including virii), or "on join" commands allowed EVER on #Teens by anyone but official channel bots.

49. It is forbiden for users/trainees/ops of #Teens to be on or associated with 'Blacklisted' channels. (Ban from #Teens would result)

50. More rules to come as needed ...... (and they will be).

No annoying non-personal repeated chatter such as: requests to chat, age/sex, msg me/dcc me, and self-ads


NOTE: Now if you feel these are good rules, you may want to apply to be an OP on a channel that Temple is on.


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by Cougar at Cougar@celestar.com

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