G-Rated Channel Mode

First and foremost, the WyldRyde staff maintains an extensive list of bad words that are deemed to be inappropriate for friendly communities.  While we do not force any filters on any channels or configure such filters to be enabled automatically, channel owners and operators have the ability to censor the bad words on this list by setting channel mode “+G” (think “G-Rated”).  When this mode is in place, all bad words on our list are automatically replaced with “<censored>” in the channel.

BotServ Auto-Kicks

Additionally, users who opt to use our services bots have the option to configure “badwords” and “kick” options to configure a list of channel-specific bad words for which users will be automatically kicked for saying.  To do this, one must first have a services bot (through BotServ) assigned to their channel, as is explained in the “How do I add a services bot to my channel?” portion of the channel registration walk-through.

Once that is all set, a channel owner can add bad words with the following command;

/bs badwords #channel add word {position}

Of course, in this example you would replace “#channel” with your channel and “word” with the word you wanted to block.  While specifying the “position” option is entirely optional, not specifying this parameter will detect your specified “word” value as a bad word even if it is part of another word.  For example, if you blocked the word “car” in your channel without specifying a “position” value, the word “carton” would be deemed as a bad word as well.

On the flip side, if you specify “start” as your position value, only words starting with “car” would be detected bad words.  In our case, the word “carton” starts with “car”, so it indeed would be classified as a bad word.  Additionally, if you use a position value of “end”, only words ending with a specific set of characters would be caught and our “carton” example would not be seen as a bad word.

To tell BotServ to automatically kick users for using “bad” words, use the following command;

/bs kick #channel badwords on {ttb}

As always, “#channel” will need to be replaced with the name of the given channel.  Additionally, the optional parameter “ttb” will specify how many times a user can be kicked before they are banned from the channel for foul language.

Note: You can enable and disable “badword” kicking as often as you want without loosing the list of words you have configured with BotServ.

Word-Blocking Channel Mode

Last but not least we’ve recently loaded the “Text/Word Extended Ban” module onto all of our IRC leafs, giving channel owners yet another option for blocking words on their channels.

This particular module does not utilize its own mode, but rather adds the “~T” flag onto the channel ban (“+b”) mode to specify that it is a text block instead of a normal user join block.  In this following example, we are going to block the word “car” in a given channel.

/mode #channel +b ~T:block:car

With this mode in place, a user who attempted to use the word “car” in the channel would not be able to send their message.  However, “carton” would still be allowed.  To better control this, you can use the wildcard character (“*”) in your specified word.  Setting a word ban on “car*” would block the word “carton”, while a word ban on “*car” would block the word “racecar” and “*car*” would block messages with words that contained “car” anywhere in them.

Additionally, you can replace “block” in the parameters with “censor” to replace specified bad words with “<censored>” instead of blocking the message altogether.

Be sure to keep in mind that channels can use any combination of these offerings, and as always you’re more than welcome to pop into our help channel if you have any questions.

/ns ajoin add #channelnamehere

For example, if you wanted to add #besttechie to your auto join list you would type: /ns ajoin add #besttechie

If you want to remove a channel from your auto join list, it’s just as easy. To delete a channel from your auto join list use the following command (below).

/ns ajoin del #channelnamehere

For example, if you wanted to delete #besttechie from your auto join list you would type: /ns ajoin del #besttechie

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to drop by our #help channel.

WyldRyde makes it dead-simple for your to create a chat-room for your community or group.  This step-by-step guide will show you how to go about registering a channel, adding a BotServ bot to it, and giving selected users voice and operator status.

What is required to register a channel?

In order to register your channel, you will need a registered nick on WyldRyde.  In short, the command to register your nick is “/ns register password email”, and you would replace “password” and “email” with your desired password and email address, respectively.  For a more in-depth guide to registering your nick, please reference my previous tutorial.

How do I go about registering a channel?

Once you are connected, registered, and identified, registering a channel is a simple two-step process.  First, you will want to use the /join command (“/join”  followed by a space and your desired channel name) to join the channel you with to register.  Remember that all channel names are prefixed with the pound sign (“#”), so your channel name should be in the form of “#ChannelName”.

Upon joining your channel, you should be the channel operator.  In clients such as mIRC and Textual, your channel operator status will be represented with the “@” symbol.  Other client such as XChat represent channel operator status with a green emblem.  Once you have assured that you have operator status, you can go about registering the channel with ChanServ.

The actual ChanServ registration process is rather straight-forward.  The command that you will want to enter is:

/cs register #channel password description

For the “#channel” variable, you will want to use the name of the channel that you joined and hold channel operator status in.  The “password” variable is simply a secure password as chosen by you.  This password can later be shared with a designated channel co-owner in order to allow another user to have the same level of channel access that is typically limited to the person who registered the channel.  Lastly, “description” needs to be replaced with a simple description (spaces allowed of the channel).  Below is a sample registration command:

Once you have submitted the command, ChanServ should send you a notice stating that the channel has been successfully registered to your name.  Additionally, ChanServ will apply mode “+r” to the channel to signify that it has been registered and  will give you mode “+q” in the channel to identify you as the channel’s owner.

Note: Even though you are the owner of a channel, you will not have the “~” or “&” symbols that are sometimes uses by other networks to symbolize a user’s owner or admin status in a channel.  WyldRyde uses the “@” symbol for all channel owners (+q), admins (+a), and operators (+o).  Despite the fact that you do not have the “~” or “&” symbols you are still the channel owner because you have the “+q” mode.

How do I add a services bot to my channel?

Adding a services bot allows you to use the commands available for BotServ in order to maintain your channel in a more simplistic fashion.

To add a bot to your channel, you will first need to select a bot name from the list of available bots (114 available as of the time of writing).  This list can be seen by typing “/bs botlist” in the text area within your client.

Once you enter this command, you should receive a list of bot names.  This list will have not only the names of the bots, but their idents and virtual hosts as well.  The list will be similar to the one shown below:

After you have selected a name from the list, assigning the bot is as simple as entering the following command:

/bs assign #channel bot

Be sure to replace “#channel” with the channel you wish to assign the bot to (it must be a channel that you own) and “bot” with the name you selected from the list.

Note: If you are interested in getting a custom bot name, please join the #help channel (“/join #help”) and ask to speak with a Services or Network Administrator about acquiring one.

Upon sending this command, you should receive confirmation from BotServ that the bot was successfully assigned.  Additionally, you will know that you executed the command correctly when you see that the bot you requested as joined your channel.

One thing that I typically do is enable “fantasy” commands within BotServ.  This allows your channel ops to take advantage of in-channel command such as “!kick” in order to simplify the channel maintenance experience.  To enable this, use the command “/bs set #channel fantasy on”, ensuring that you replace “#channel” with the name of your channel.

How do I assign access levels to other users?

One of the great things about ChanServ is that it allows you to give registered users access levels within the channel, and allows for these access levels to be associated with the user’s identity.  This means that you do not have to worry about re-voicing or re-oping a user whenever he or she enters your channel, as you can have services do it automatically.

The basic command for assigning an access level to a user is: “/cs LVL #channel add nick”.  In this command, you must replace “#channel” with your channel name and “nick” with the user who you are assigning an access level to.  Additionally, you must replace “LVL” with a three-digit code from below to tell ChanServ exactly what level of access that you want said user to have.  The following table shows the three-digit code, the modes that it will give the user, and an idea of what the user will be able to do with the given level of access.

Once you submit the command, you will receive confirmation from ChanServ that everything went through successfully.

If you wish to give someone co-owner status in your channel, you must give them the password that you set during the channel registration process.  Then, they will need to use the command “/cs identify #channel password”, replacing “#channel” with the channel name and “password” with the password you set.

Note, however, that you should only give the founder’s password to people that you really trust, as a co-owner has full control over the channel’s settings and can even go as far as removing your owner status, regardless of the fact that you originally created the channel.

What if I have more questions?

As always, you are encouraged to join the #help channel (“/join #help”, or visit using the web-chat) if you have any questions.  A staff member or helper will be more than willing to help!

Registering your online handle (known as your “nick”) on WyldRyde gives you a great number of benefits that will ultimately make your experience on WyldRyde that much better.

What are the benefits of registering?

Some of the benifits from having a registered nick include:

• The ability to protect your nick
  Registering your nick ensures that you are the only one able to use it.  This eliminates the need to worry about someone stealing your nick or impersonating you on IRC.
• The ability to register channels
  Registered  WyldRyde users are able to register channels (also known as chat rooms) of their own on WyldRyde.  Registration is necessary to do this because each channel registration needs to be associated with a registered nick.  Obviously, this cannot be done if you do not register.
• The possibility of becoming voiced or op’d in channels
  Often times when a user proves themselves to be trustworthy in a channel, the owner of said channel will give them “status” in the channel.  User statuses are associated with nicks, and without registering you will make it impossible for a channel owner to “promote” you within the room.
• Qualification for a VHost
  WyldRyde allows for registered users to request a virtual hostname (also known as a VHost) to mask the hostname assigned to them by their ISP.  Again, this is something that is associated with the users WyldRyde identity, meaning that in order to obtain a VHost the user must be registered.

How do I register?

Registering your nick is by no stretch of the imagination a difficult process, and in this tutorial I will walk you through said process step by step.

First off, you’re going to need an IRC client.  There are a number of desktop clients that you can download and use on your computer, however you can also use our web-based chat client if you cannot or do not wish to install software onto your computer.

Upon connecting to WyldRyde (use “/connect irc.wyldryde.org” in your client if you’re not using the web-based chat), the first thing you will want to do is change your nick to something that you’d like to register.  I always recommended putting thought into your nick selection, because even though you can change it down the road, it’s good practice to keep a consistent name.  Once you have pondered your nick selection, use the /nick command (type “/nick” followed by your desired nickname).  This will change your nickname.

Once you have changed your nick, you’ll want to register it through NickServ – the nickname services bot on WyldRyde.  To do this, you need to type “/ns register” followed by your desired password and email address.  It’s best practice to use a strong password that would be difficult (if not impossible) for another user to guess.  While we do not check the validity of email addresses, I always recommended that you enter your real email address, because this will allow us to assist you with password resets in the event that you forget your password.  Below is an example of the registration command.

How do I identify?

Of course, once you register your nick you will need to identify upon returning to WyldRyde.  If you are using the web-based chat client, identifying is as simple as providing your password in the log-in box.  The same can also be said for many modern-day IRC clients such as XChat (Windows and Linux) and Textual (Mac OS X).

However, if you have a client that does not have a built-in option for handling NickServ passwords, you can simply use the /identify command (“/indentify” followed by your password) to identify with NickServ.  To automatically identify, you may also look into your client’s “connect commands” options to automatically send the identification command upon connecting to WyldRyde.

What if I need help?

If you find that you require assistance in registering your nick, feel free to stop by the #help channel on WyldRyde (/join #help), or connect via our web-based chat client.  For a complete list of commands available through NickServ, visit the NickServ commands page.

1. The first thing I typically recommend is to do a /list when you connect to WyldRyde and see what some of the larger channels on the network are and join them.  Of the channels you join from the /list become acquainted with the current chatters in the room.  Ideally you want to become friends with these people so they will want hang out in your channel too.
2. Do not spam your chat at any point!  You do not want to come across as spammer because that automatically give you a bad reputation and you will never get anyone in there or worse it may be closed down due to spamming.  As I mentioned in tip number one, become friends with the people in the chat room because occasionally a chat room owner will let you share your chat room in theirs so people will find out about it.
3. If you have a website – use it!  Our new flash chat will be available soon so be sure to embed your chat room on your site!  In the mean time feel free to setup a Mibbit Widget.
4. If you have a twitter account - use it!  Share your chat room’s name and our address: irc.wyldryde.org so people can come find and join you.
5. If you have become friendly with someone on WyldRyde and would like to invite them to your channel you can use the /invite command (/invite nick #chatroom).  Note: Please do not use this command to spam or flood users with invites if we receive reports that you are doing it we will be forced to look into the issue and possibly close your channel down after several complaints and warnings.

There are 5 easy ways you can promote your chat room on WyldRyde!  I should also mention that we will be starting a new tradition – chat room of the month.  What we will be doing is featuring a new chat room every month!  Each month we will pick a new channel to recommend and write a blog post about the channel itself and/or any website or community it is associated with.  The chat will be featured on the sidebar of WyldRyde.org and we will also tweet out the blog post which talks about the recommended chat room.  We plan to start this very soon so keep an eye out!

If for whatever reason you do not want your chat room featured on WyldRyde, please just let us know and we will be more than happy to adhere to your request.

• Download and install mIRC
  mIRC is avaliable from http://mirc.com (or http://mirc.co.uk).
  1. Download the setup file and run it.
  2. Follow each step, but make sure you select ‘Full’ from the Choose Components part of the installation wizard, not Upgrade.
  3. mIRC will now install and then an icon will appear on your desktop; if you specified the setup to create an icon.
• Configure mIRC
  1. When you first start mIRC, and get past the Registration Warning screen (just press Continue when that appears) the mIRC Options dialog will appear.
  2. Fill in your First Name, Email Address (you don’t have to provide one), a nickname you would like to use and an alternative nickname.
     
  3. Now we have to select WyldRyde as the server we want to connect to.
  4. Select ‘Servers’ from the Category Tree-menu on the left-hand side.
  5. Then scroll to and click on ‘WyldRyde‘ in the ‘IRC Servers’ list, then click Select.
     
  6. Now we can connect! Click ‘Connect’ in the mIRC Options dialog, under the ‘Connect’ option in the tree menu.
     
  7. The mIRC Favorites dialog will appear when you connect. This is pointless as none of the chatrooms/channels in that list are on WyldRyde. Untick ‘Pop up favorites on connect’ at the bottom of the dialog, and then click OK.
     
• Registering your nickname and joining channels
  Well, you’ve made it! You’ve successfully connected to WyldRyde. Time to register your nickname, so no one else can use it! The nickname I’m using for this tutorial is ‘Tutorial1′, but you can use whatever you like, as long as it isn’t already registered. (You’ll be notified if it is already taken)
  So, to register your nickname type:
  /msg NickServ REGISTER password email
  Replace ‘password’ with a unique password and ‘email’ with your legitimate email address. Make the password difficult, but make sure you can remember it, as you will need to identify yourself every time you connect to WyldRyde.
  
  You are now registered
  Now that you’ve got that out of the way, why not join a channel and start chatting? If you want to talk about a certain topic, or just hang out, it’s probably best to look at the channel list.
  To view the channel list, type the following and hit enter:
  /list
  The channel list will start to populate. Double click on any channel you wish to join, and you will enter that channel.
  
• Reconnecting and Identifying
  Missing IRC and want to reconnect again? No problem!
  1. Start up mIRC again, and click either the Connect icon () in the toolbar, or click ‘Connect’ from the mIRC Options dialog, like we did earlier.
  2. Once you’ve connected, you’ll need to identify your nickname using the password we made during registration.
     To identify, type:
     /ns identify password
     Be SURE to replace ‘password’ with the unique password we created during registration

Note: You can set mIRC up to identify you automatically, and join channels when you have identified correctly, but there are posts on this forum to assist you with those things. Check out the related topics section below.
Related topics:

1. How To Setup X Chat (Free IRC Client.)
2. mIRC Script for Identifying & Joining Channels on Connect
3. Using mIRC to connect to multiple networks.
4. Other IRC Clients

• Why was I censored?

• Never type “/mode your-nick -x” as it will allow others to see your IP address or full host mask.
• Do not accept DCC chat or file transfers requests as either will allow a direct connection to your machine and will allow someone to determine your IP.

There has recently been a lot of questions and insistences by a few that Colloquy can determine the IP addresses of everyone. This is absolutely not the case. Colloquy performs a dns of the vhost address, and if it’s a real domain name, it provides the IP address that the domain name is associated with. It does not provide the actual IP address that the user is using because it cannot, nor can any client, get the IP address of any privatized hostmask or IP.

It’s worth noting that if you can run mIRC in VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop you’ll be better off as IRBot is pretty limited in its features. Lots of mIRC scripts that are useful for bots can be found in our mIRC Scripting forum.