One of the most common questions I have seen over the years I have been on IRC is “how do you get more people in your chat room?”. There are many approaches you can take to help grow your chat room – some better than others. I’m here to share with you some of the [...]
mIRC is easily the most popular IRC client for Windows. With it you can connect to WyldRyde and chat in many channels. You may also use it to run very simple to very complex scripts that can even allow you to setup mIRC as a full featured IRC Bot.
How To Setup mIRC for Windows:
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Unfortunately, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals are often subjected to homophobic remarks and harassment online, as in real life. We do not want anyone to feel disrespected, insecure, unwanted or unsafe.
Homophobic remarks such as “thats so gay” or “this is gay” are the most commonly heard. Even since these slurs are often unintentional [...]
On WyldRyde all our users’ IP addresses and host masks are privatized upon connection to prevent others from determining your IP address or full hostmask.
Only WyldRyde Staff and YOU can see your own IP address and full host. So when YOU “/whois your-own-nick” you will see it. However, when others whois you they will only [...]
We really appreciate everyone who hangs out in #Help and is eager to try to help others but there are some instances when you shouldn’t get involved and instead allow the WyldRyde Staff and official helpers (halfops and higher) deal with the problem.
Some examples of serious issues where it would be best for you not [...]
Jordan Singer has posted a nice video tutorial that will show you step by step how to install and setup IRBot for the Mac.
No, we strongly recommend that you do not group your nick with another nick that belongs to any other person, even your wife or husband.
Over the years we’ve witnessed too many instances when a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, or husband had grouped nicks or shared their password with their partner and then they used them improperly.
In [...]
WyldRyde doesn’t offer any paid staff positions.
In fact, ALL WyldRyde “Staffers” are volunteers and dedicate their free time to helping WyldRyde and its users.
There is no application process to become an official volunteer, they were asked to become “staff” after we noticed their dedication and willingness to help other users in #help and other channels.
If [...]
Nope, we can’t remove the ban!
Even if you never joined a specific channel, you might find yourself unable to join it because of a ban that is in place.
The channel may have banned users from your ISP, area, or country.
They might be banning people that run a script you’re using.
They might have [...]
Foul or vulgar language may not be appropriate for all channels and some may even activate a mode which will automatically censor all language that is not suitable for children and replace it with “<censored>”.
The person who is using foul language and is automatically being censored doesn’t see their words replaced with “<censored>”, however everyone [...]
