Register a channel
Before we begin
This help is intended for webmasters only. If you want to register a room and do not have a java applet on your site, then you will not be able to get any help from SI Staff, and you will not be allowed to get chatters from other websites' rooms. Channel owners are warned that any attempt to advertise/promote their channel in any other channel is a serious offence, as is asking others to advertise/promote the room for you. This applies regardless of who is promoting the site, and regardless of whether it's in a whisper / message / query or in the room/channel.
PSTP expect all rooms to be owned by webmasters with
PSTP applets on their sites, and we will do our best to support webmasters and protect their rooms against those that advertise in them.
If you're a webmaster and you have discovered that people are promoting other chat rooms in your room or to chatters in your room through private messages, then inform a
member of staff
in #help, if one is available.
Before you can register your chat room
First, you need to have registered your name (and be using your registered name at the time of registering your room). You also need to be a Channel Operator in your room (a @ symbol will appear in front of your name), and you must be using either the Whiplash CGI client, or mIRC.
Note: You can not register a chat room using the Java applet! You must use
mIRC.
Registering the room with ChanServ
So.. when you've done all that, you're now ready to actually register the room. You'll need to specify the name of the room (called #chan in our example), the password (we've used pass in our example), and the description (we've used just 'description' here).
/msg chanserv register #CHAN PASS DESCRIPTION
ChanServ should say the room has been registered
successfully, unless someone else has already registered it. If it complains for any other reason, make sure you have done
all the above correctly.
Making yourself an Auto-Op
Once your room is registered, you'll need to ensure you are automatically Opped when you enter. In
mIRC, go to
File > Options, then under the IRC sub-menu, go to
Perform.
Add the following lines to perform:-
/msg nickserv identify YOURPASS
/msg chanserv identify #YOURCHAN PASS
/join #YOURCHAN
Make sure you specify the correct passwords, and that the box saying "perform these commands on connect" is checked. This means that every time you connect to Sailirc, you will automatically enter your room and be Opped immediately. (If you use Whiplash, you must type it all in every time you enter!).
Setting Auto-Ops and Auto-Voices and Co-founders..
You can set your room so that other people are , auto-super, auto-op, or auto-voice. Auto voice (+v) doesn't do much except make that person immune from SI-Bot's flood protection and if the channel becomes moderated (+m) then people with +v can speak. Auto op (+o) gives that person the right to kick and ban people from that channel. Auto super op (+ao) gives that user the channel protected mode (+a) and rights to add to the auto kick list (another feature you can find in ChanServ by typing /msg ChanServ help akick).
How to add someone as an auto-voice in your room:-
/msg chanserv vop #YOURCHAN add USERNAME
To delete someone's auto-voice in your room:-
/msg chanserv vop #YOURCHAN del USERNAME
How to add someone as an auto-op in your room:-
/msg chanserv aop #YOURCHAN add USERNAME
To delete someone's auto-op in your room:-
/msg chanserv aop #YOURCHAN del USERNAME
How to add someone as a auto-super op in your room:-
/msg chanserv sop #YOURCHAN add USERNAME
To delete someone's auto-super op in your room:-
/msg chanserv sop #YOURCHAN add USERNAME
Protecting your room
If you want to dis-allow swearing in your channel (this is highly recommended and may be essential if you wish your chatroom to be listed on the Sailirc list), then use the following command:-
/mode #YOURCHAN +G
Note: the G above must be capital G, all modes are case sensitive!)
