Oper Guidelines

As noted on the opers page, MagNET's operators generally follow these guidelines, except when they don't.

In most cases, where a real person is involved (not a bot, clone or trojan) you should try to talk to them first. Oper commands should be used as a last resort. Educate channel owners on how to set good bans, and use the tools they have first. G-Lines should be used only when there is no good alternative solution. Spammers may be killed without warning as long as they are really spammers (see below).

Reasonable Person Principle Applies.
Valid Reasons to take kill/kline/gline action against a user:
- Spam: Unsolicited MASS advertising. Pasting a URL is NOT spam if it's an honest part of conversation.
- Mass flooding: Flooding one channel is grounds for a channel ban, not a kline/gline. The flooding must be to multiple targets (such as moving from channel to channel flooding)
- Ban/ignore Evasion: IRC is designed so that users can solve their own problems. Opers may take action in cases however, where extra-persistent people change hosts, use proxies, etc to avoid ignores or channel bans. Once banned, users must respect the ban until it expires. Evading should result only in longer ban time.
- Serious threats: Users who very strongly threaten others or MagNET with cracking or DDOS.
We are not the morality police, nor are we cops. MagNET tends to be an uncensored place. However, err on the side of caution. If the behavior or content of a channel or person may endanger the network, act accordingly to defend the network.
Glines should be set only in an emergency. Use them to eliminate serious threats against the network or multiple channels.
Glines/Klines are not to be used to enforce the policy of a specific channel. Ban evasion, however, may elicit a kline.
Glines/Klines set by other people, should not be removed by you without some special reason. (I.E. Do not clean up the list just because YOU don't know what they are for) If you do need to remove a kline/gline please try to talk to the setter(s) about it.
Add #opers to your list of automatically joined channels. Most discussion happens here, especially if a problem must be handled immediately and cannot wait for an email to go out and come back.
Subscribe to the opers mailing list via "ircops-subscribe AT perl.org". All non-emergency network planning and discussion happens (or should happen) here.

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Home FAQ Channels Servers Opers User Guidelines Oper Guidelines Support/Help	Oper Guidelines As noted on the opers page, MagNET's operators generally follow these guidelines, except when they don't. In most cases, where a real person is involved (not a bot, clone or trojan) you should try to talk to them first. Oper commands should be used as a last resort. Educate channel owners on how to set good bans, and use the tools they have first. G-Lines should be used only when there is no good alternative solution. Spammers may be killed without warning as long as they are really spammers (see below). Reasonable Person Principle Applies. Valid Reasons to take kill/kline/gline action against a user: Spam: Unsolicited MASS advertising. Pasting a URL is NOT spam if it's an honest part of conversation. Mass flooding: Flooding one channel is grounds for a channel ban, not a kline/gline. The flooding must be to multiple targets (such as moving from channel to channel flooding) Ban/ignore Evasion: IRC is designed so that users can solve their own problems. Opers may take action in cases however, where extra-persistent people change hosts, use proxies, etc to avoid ignores or channel bans. Once banned, users must respect the ban until it expires. Evading should result only in longer ban time. Serious threats: Users who very strongly threaten others or MagNET with cracking or DDOS. We are not the morality police, nor are we cops. MagNET tends to be an uncensored place. However, err on the side of caution. If the behavior or content of a channel or person may endanger the network, act accordingly to defend the network. Glines should be set only in an emergency. Use them to eliminate serious threats against the network or multiple channels. Glines/Klines are not to be used to enforce the policy of a specific channel. Ban evasion, however, may elicit a kline. Glines/Klines set by other people, should not be removed by you without some special reason. (I.E. Do not clean up the list just because YOU don't know what they are for) If you do need to remove a kline/gline please try to talk to the setter(s) about it. Add #opers to your list of automatically joined channels. Most discussion happens here, especially if a problem must be handled immediately and cannot wait for an email to go out and come back. Subscribe to the opers mailing list via "ircops-subscribe AT perl.org". All non-emergency network planning and discussion happens (or should happen) here.
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