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How to Choose Staff for Your Channel
April 7, 2012 - 2:54 pm
Tags: chanserv, FAQ, hop, op
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Once you register your channel, you can add staff to help you keep order or enforce any rules you have for your channel. The commands for making someone a permanent admin, operator or half-operator are relatively simple. You can even add someone as a founder (though we don’t recommend it). The harder part is choosing…
Welcome to Felicia Day and Geek and Sundry!
April 1, 2012 - 3:17 pm
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Have we got a great April Fool’s Day present for you! GeekShed got a lot geekier today. Join us in welcoming Felicia Day of Geek and Sundry to the network, along with the cast and crew of the great Geek and Sundry shows. The Geek and Sundry Subscribathon is underway today, and the official chat…
Choosing a Nickname
March 25, 2012 - 10:50 pm
Tags: channel, nicknames, nicks, nickserv
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One of the first things that you do when you join us on GeekShed is choose and register a nickname. The basic guidelines are pretty simple. Just choose something that is unique, that is easy to type and remember, and that doesn’t give away private information. Beyond that, there are some restrictions on nicknames. Your…
Using Channel Modes to Hide Your Channel
March 18, 2012 - 3:52 pm
Tags: channel, channel modes, privacy, secret
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You can use channel modes to make dozens of customizations to your channel. Last week, I talked about using channel modes to set a channel key, which works like a password for your channel. Today I’m going to talk about another way to keep your channel a private place: the channel modes +s and +p….
Using Channel Keys
March 12, 2012 - 6:55 pm
Tags: channel, channel modes, FAQ, key, password
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If you ever had a secret password to get into your clubhouse, you understand the way that channel keys work. You can set a channel key for your channel, and only those people who have the key will be able to join the channel. If you want to have private conversations, using a channel key…
What Is A Hostmask?
When you connect to GeekShed, the server reads information from your client and sets a hostmask that is used to identify you on the network. Perhaps obviously, your hostmask hides (or masks) some of the specifics about your connection (in other words, your host). Your hostmask will take this general format: nick!user@host For example, here’s…
Getting a Channel in the List of Chat Rooms
February 22, 2012 - 2:40 pm
Tags: channel, channel modes
Posted in Explanation | Comments Off on Getting a Channel in the List of Chat Rooms
If you’re looking for a channel to join, all you have to do is visit the Chat Rooms page here on the site. The automatically generated page lists channels, their topics, and the number of users currently in the channel, listed from the channel with the most users to the channel with the fewest users….
Learning More About A User
February 16, 2012 - 11:46 pm
Tags: nickserv, whois, whowas
Posted in Explanation | Comments Off on Learning More About A User
If you were on Facebook and wanted to know more about someone, you’d go to their profile and click the Info or About link (depending upon whether the person has set up the Timeline). We don’t have profile pages in IRC, but you can use some basic commands to learn a little bit more about…
How to Protect Your GeekShed Password
February 2, 2012 - 6:21 pm
Tags: password, security
Posted in Explanation | Comments Off on How to Protect Your GeekShed Password
Yesterday I witnessed this little series of events (and the names have been changed to protect the innocent): * Joins: HarryLime (~HarryLime@thethirdman.com) <HarryLime> msg NickServ IDENTIFY passw0rd * HarryLime is now known as Unidentified1337 * Quits: Unidentified1337 (~HarryLime@thethirdman.com ) (Quit: Unidentified1337 ) * Joins: HarryLime_ (~HarryLime@thethirdman.com) <HarryLime_> hmm * Quits: HarryLime_ (~HarryLime@thethirdman.com ) (Quit: HarryLime_…