IRC User Guide

Never used IRC before? This page will help get you up to speed and provide a quick reference guide for you!

Beginner commands

• Changing your nickname is done with:

• /nick name

• Note: Spaces are not allowed in a nickname; they are treated as the end of the nickname, and anything after a space will not show up. Alphanumeric (A-Z, 1-9) characters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed.

• Joining a room is done with:

• /join #room

• Leaving a room is done with:

• /part #room

• Sending someone a private message is done with:

• /query user message

• Display all available channels:

• /list

What different symbols mean

+ - User has voice in a room.

• Strictly symbolic.

@ - User has operator status in the room.

• User can kick, ban/unban, quiet/unquiet for that room only.

Miscellaneous Commands

• /me does something

• /whois nickname

• /away away-message-here

• /quit [optional farewell message]

NickServ commands

Nickserv allows nickname based commands, here's a basic rundown of the most commonly used commands.

• /msg nickserv register password email

• Registers your current nickname so nobody else can use it.

• Once registerred, you will need to identify to your nickname whenever you log on. (Explained below)

• Registerring will automatically provide you with a hostmask matching tripsit/user/Username. This is shown instead of your scrambled host.

• /msg nickserv identify username password

• Allows you to sign in to your nickserv registerred account. (Explained above)

• username is optional, can be used to identify to your nickname while using a different nick.

• /msg nickserv ghost username password

• Allows you to remotely disconnect anybody currently using your nickserv registerred nickname.

• Useful when your connection drops and you don't want to wait for the ping timeout.

ChanServ commands

ChanServ allows channel based commands. Here's a basic rundown of the most commonly used commands.

• /msg chanserv register #channel

• Registers a channel with chanserv, making it a permanent channel.

• Must be op in the channel you wish to register.

• /msg chanserv drop #channel

• Unregister a channel.

• Sends a message to your root connection window asking to confirm the drop.

• /msg chanserv flags #channel user +/-flags

• Allows setting or removing flags on a user. + adds flags, - removes them.

• Can only be used by channel operators, or those with the f flag.

• An overview of channel flags can be found here.

• /msg chanserv mode #channel +/-modes

• Allows setting or removing modes on a channel. + adds modes, - removes them.

• Can only be used by channel operators.

• An overview of channel modes can be found here.

• /msg chanserv kick/ban/unban/quiet/unquiet #channel user

• Allows silently kicking/banning/unbanning/quieting/unquieting a user.

• Can only be used by channel operators, or those with the r flag.