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is this a valid kick reason?

I don't really think it is

[22:13] * You were kicked from #wrongplanet by bbabyface (annoying me)
22:13 -!- Pikachu was kicked from #wrongplanet by bbabyface [annoying me]

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Well, I will tell you this, Katesmith was made a channel operator without any input from me. It was done without informing me, without asking my opinion, etc. when I was gone and at the International Conference on Information Warfare for school. I am not the only channel operator who was blind sided by that action either.

I don't care that a person wants to help, I don't care that they are a regular user of the room, that they try to be nice, that they want to unban people, that they've been around a long time, etc. Those are not the traits for a good channel operator, a good channel operator has to be able to set aside personal differences when dealing with messes in channel. A good operator has to be able to realize who is responsible for what when a fight breaks out, and deal with stopping it effectively, and then attempt to address the issues with that person to prevent it happening again. A good operator *HAS* to ban people at times for the good of the rest of the channel. And most of all, a good channel operator should no op themselves and threaten to kick, or kick people, just because that person said or did something the operator didn't like, or the operator just doesn't like the person so decides to pick on them!

I won't even get into the technical things a channel operator has to understand to do their job! Quite frankly, there have been a number of actions over the past few months in channel that have completely disgusted me, including attacks on the channel by some ops because they were bored and wanted some fun! (thankfully those people are no longer channel operators, I saw to that!) I wish I had the time to be in channel more atm, but as school semester is ending, I don't right now, but if things go my way, hopefully I'll be able to help fix up the channel more shortly. If not, or if others continue to do stupid things (like inviting known trolls back, attacking the channel for their own fun, etc.) I will be leaving, and with me will go all the protection and effort I've been putting into helping!
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if any of the chatroom ops do read this (i know this is a long shot)

is there anywhere in the rules that can associate to people cutting and pasting things from the room back into the room for the benefit of those who have a particular person on ignore to see it? isn't the whole purpose of ignore to stop you seeing a person you DON'T want to see?

I would like to see a rule to that degree instated.... can this happen? would it be feasable?

There are chatroom ops?


Merle

Right, I thought I'd better bring this up

THe chat again

it's getting out of hand in there again... we need some more competent ops

I'd gladly be an op and help out where I can if I ever get that opportunity, I can bring so much to the channel

as it stands here is the situation

Trolls get in and due to lack of ops they don't go fast enough
People that have done absolutely nothing are being attacked by others (I can name several of the attackers and one of them posts on these forums also)
the wrong people sometimes end up banned/silenced
the place is turning into a major drama and I want it stopping

Alex, if you read this.. please take an interest

Don't op pikachu. He's a stalker who harasses people frequently.

The remainder of his post, however, is accurate.

All true.



False


Hi there.


True again.

Untrue

Anyway, back to the chat

Yes, we need more ops, and yes it's getting annoying

Last edited by Pikachu on 07 Jan 2009, 10:09 am, edited 1 time in total.

I have being an op in a number of IRC chat rooms and it's a position of great responsibility .
An op is the public face and servant of the chat room and possibly of the linked website too.

One thing I did learn very early on is never make anyone an op who asks or requests to be one;
they always want it for the wrong reasons.

I recently went into the chat room and I was appalled by it;
it has to be one of the most unfriendly chat rooms I have ever visited.

I am not surprised

I certainly didn't request ops myself, I said I could do the job if ever given the opportunity, and I do have so much to bring to the chatroom

as soon as that place is a bit more friendly again it'll attract new visitors, that's one of my objectives, to keep the peace

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the wrongplanet chat room is still in the toilet as of today when i went. we need more ops. moar moar moar

too right we need more ops, some of the troublemakers are banned but not all sadly

We need more ops.

We need ops who can and will deal with everyone fairly, not based on who is their friend. Katesmith has already indicated through words and action that she can't or won't. The selective blindness isn't fooling anyone.

indeed we do need more ops, but I was thinking more ops to keep the trolls out and keep the peace, dealing with everyone fairly is also a good point though, as for katesmith, give her chance and she'll get there

Hasn't she had a 9 month chance?

An unwillingness to make her friends follow the rules isn't acceptable in an op. Biased ops are worse than no ops.

I don't think I've seen anything regards to her not making her friends follow the rules, although I have been busy dealing with other things over the last few days which may explain why

things seriously are getting out of hand in that chatroom

I just want it all to stop, and be civil like it once was and I'm sure others do too