Idea for module
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:42 am
A new chanmode that makes the opped away users get deopped when they get away
suggestions?
suggestions?
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:39 am
Why is that good? Just because a channel operator becomes away for some time, should the channel mode stop him/her from receiving messages sent to +#channel, %#channel and @#channel, and thus make his/her logging capability useless? Additionally, for example, XChat marks away users as gray in the channel members list (maybe there are similar features in other clients as well), so I think it shouldn't be a problem if chanops are away.
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:25 pm
Not to mention the fun that can occur if the channel only has 1 op. I set /away, now there are no ops. And if the channel wasn't registered, or services are down...
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:01 pm
That bit wouldn't be so bad if the module remembered ops that set away, and reop them when they unset it.
But I agree that it's rather useless. There are better ways to show that you're away: 1) you can deop yourself (and you might not want to do this for unregistered channels / services gone down). 2) you can change your nick to something else. (A 3rd method would be to announce it every so often - on a /timer perhaps - but I personally have a tendency to want to strangle people that do that...)
Oh and by the way, why the HECK is a module-related thread in the services forum?
But I agree that it's rather useless. There are better ways to show that you're away: 1) you can deop yourself (and you might not want to do this for unregistered channels / services gone down). 2) you can change your nick to something else. (A 3rd method would be to announce it every so often - on a /timer perhaps - but I personally have a tendency to want to strangle people that do that...)
Oh and by the way, why the HECK is a module-related thread in the services forum?
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:14 am
Lol.
I agree with aquanight here, it COULD be useful, but then why not just /whois them and look at their idle time/away status.
I agree with aquanight here, it COULD be useful, but then why not just /whois them and look at their idle time/away status.
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:01 pm
Well what I meant is, what if something happens while you're gone? When I'm away, I still have my flood-kick script going and such. So if no other opers are around, my script will get rid of flooders. However, if I'm deopped whenever I set /away, that user can flood for hours until I return.That bit wouldn't be so bad if the module remembered ops that set away, and reop them when they unset it
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:28 pm
A valid point you raise codemastr.
However, most major channels that I know of have at least two active ops at a time.
However, most major channels that I know of have at least two active ops at a time.