Securing Your Channel

Avade IRC Network lets users register their own channels using their registered nicknames, and both new founders and old founders needs to know which buttons to press to secure his or her irc channel the way they want it so that the channel responds the way it should.

Securing your channel can be complicated so Im sure alot of old ircers out there still struggling to get their channels secured.

Below we have listed a few useful steps on how to secure your channel up.

OP Guard

The first golden rule regarding running your own channel is to never op(@) users that you do not know, these unknown users could have a hidden agenda regarding your channel and make a mess with their new access in your channel. To avoid having your trusted ops(@) give away access to unknown people in the channel setting the OP Guard on your channel will prevent users that who are not listed on any of the op lists of the channel from gaining op(@) through any current op(@). To activate it simply issue this following comand:

 /chanserv SET #chan OPGUARD ON

Ident

Now after we placed the OP Guard we can only give op(@) to those who have gained access through a registered nick which is listed on a aop+ list.

However due to the ability to add and use the nickserv ACCESS LIST command other users may match a user@mask of an aop+ nick access list and through that nick gain op(@) in your channel. To avoid these very rare occurances but very real occurances we can patch this ability up through the Ident channel option. To activate it just type like this:

 /chanserv SET #chan IDENT ON

MLock

Now this option will force modes in a certain direction, either force on modes or force off modes. Before you consider force modes on we can talk about what modes are good to force at all.

Channel Modes
 +t - Only allow ops(@) set the chan topic
 +n - Only allow users inside the channel to send messages
 +R - Only allow registered nicks join the chan
 +M - Only allow registered nicks or opvoice(@+) message the channel
 +m - Only allow oped(@) or voiced(+) users to message the chan
 +i - Invite only
 +k key - Channel key
 +l num - Channel limit

Now we know the important modes, we can determin which modes to use and in what direction.

We recommend that if you are not gonna set a channel keyword you use the following compilation of modes for your channel "+nt-mk", this will force "nt" to always be activated on your channel and it will force remove the "mk" modes whenever they have been added. Why we recommend this compilation is because it leaves alot of option for your channel staff to resolve issues in the channel, like they would be free to use the "MR" modes to resolve issues using unregistered nicks, and they can lock the channel with the "i" mode and also you can have a bot controlling the "l" mode.

If you force "+nt-MRikm" you will cause trouble for your ops(@) because the only way to restrict access to the channel would be by using bans to moderate users or ban them from the channel. Heres how the recommended MLock is set on your chan:

 /chanserv SET #chan MLOCK +nt-mk

After this its upto you and your staff to add good reliable users on the access lists of the channel and to maintain your channel.

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