User Roles / Status

[Guest Glock]

Does anyone have the old msn chat user roles/status and there descriptions?

 

What I am looking for is the text (used to be on help.msn.com) about the chat room roles.

 

It showed all the symbols and the description of what they meant.

 

The closest thing i have found is: http://bloggingmsnchat.blogspot.com/2005/12/adminkoach-joke.html but there is only part of it. I cant see the rest of it.

[Stormy]

I don't even understand what you're looking for, rusty, sorry.

[Guest Glock]

Anyone else?

[Smiley]

Glock:

 

I moved this topic into IRC Chat Help from the Readers_Corner forum which is specifically designed to support the readers corner chats.  In answer to your question MSN used IRCX which identified the following user modes (or if you will user statuses).

 

a  --  admin (total access to the servers, including the ability to turn them off)

 

o --  operator (Sysop) (total access and super host status on any channel (there were some exceptions to channels reserved for admin use)(capable of banning specific users from all chats)

 

o --  operator (guide) (basically gave owner access to the guide in any room they entered, but limited to certain rooms and unable to give "global" commands such as bans to the entire system.)

 

all of the above were identified by the butterfly icon in front of their nickname in the room list.

 

then there were various room modes giving certain users specific authorities in those specific rooms.

 

#channel mode +q Nickname    room owner (gold hammer)

 

#channel mode +o Nickname   room host (brown hammer)

 

#channel mode +v  Voice voiced in a room where most chatters were muted (in rooms that were "moderated" those who were not voiced showed eyeglasses in front of their nick (read only)

 

room bans for users were also a channel mode (+b Nickname)

 

In IRCX the /access command could be used to set those modes for users

 

In MSN owned (registered) channels, the room bots had "owner status" and were normally handled by guides, the bots were automated but the "bot runner" could use the bot as though it were a normal chat nick.  The room bots had a built in "rule set" which according to the room settings could kick, ban, etc.  In the later days of MSN web chat the room bots were run by "guides"

 

There were also some specialized bots that had special authorities and were used by sysops and admins to police the servers and handle hackers, porn spammers, etc.

 

For more detailed info check the IRCX draft ( http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/docs/ircx/docbook/ ) which is the most recent tech description of the full IRCX command structure that I am aware of. 

 

 

Hope that answers the question.