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+ | ======Etiquette on irc - or - How to Avoid Getting Yourself Kicked out of Channels====== | ||
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+ | ^ Original Authors ^ | ||
+ | |Lea Viljanen | ||
+ | |Ari Husa |(luru) | ||
+ | ^Modified By ^ | ||
+ | |Troy Rollo |(Troy) | ||
+ | ^ Further Modified By ^ | ||
+ | |James Sneeringer | ||
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+ | 1) Language | ||
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+ | The most widely spoken and understood language on irc is English. | ||
+ | does **not** mean it is the only language on irc! Far from it, in fact. In | ||
+ | general, it is ok to speak any language. | ||
+ | language that is understood by the majority of the channel you're in. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Some channels prefer that only a single language, or select group of | ||
+ | them, be used in their channel. | ||
+ | dedicated to particular countries. | ||
+ | but their preference naturally lies with their native tongue. | ||
+ | channels may even have a topic set that says what the channel' | ||
+ | preferred language is. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 2) Hello and Goodbye | ||
+ | |||
+ | It is not necessary to greet each and every person that joins a channel | ||
+ | you're on. On a busy channel, this would quickly become annoying, as | ||
+ | everyones' | ||
+ | else. If you feel inclined to greet someone that you don't know, send | ||
+ | a private message with the /msg command. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Having established that a screenful of greetings is A Bad Thing, it | ||
+ | follows that automated greetings are worse. | ||
+ | ability to react to any arbitrary event with an arbitrary action is | ||
+ | that it is often misused. | ||
+ | everyone, you are in fact being just the opposite. | ||
+ | are impersonal at best. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 3) Channel Discussion | ||
+ | |||
+ | As a general rule, there is no general rule about what sort of discussion | ||
+ | may be taking place on a channel at any given time. Usually, the topic | ||
+ | of discussion will be related in some way to the channel' | ||
+ | on #perl probably answer questions about the Perl programming language | ||
+ | and discuss new features. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The best strategy is to watch the discussion for a bit to get an idea of | ||
+ | what the channel is really all about. | ||
+ | as from the channel topic), you should always feel free to contribute to | ||
+ | the conversation, | ||
+ | discussion in a direction that it isn't flowing toward. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 4) } { | ` ~ ] [ \ @ ^ | ||
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+ | No, it isn't line noise, and no, someone didn't make a typing error. | ||
+ | irc, there is a large population of users from Scandinavian countries, | ||
+ | and the above characters represent letters in their alphabet. | ||
+ | everyone has access to a terminal that can use or display the real | ||
+ | letters, these characters are instead substituted. | ||
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+ | [, ], \, @ and ^ are the preceding five letters in upper case. | ||
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+ | Of course, the irony here is that the French and German mappings are not | ||
+ | the same. Oh well... | ||
+ | |||
+ | 5) **ATTENTION!** | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you remember nothing else from this document, remember this. People | ||
+ | on irc form their opinions about you based solely on your actions, | ||
+ | writings, and comments on irc. Think **before** you type. | ||
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etiquette.txt · Last modified: 2006/07/11 04:57 by 127.0.0.1