J’raxis·Com
J’raxis·Com
Get an IRC client such as X-Chat or BitchX for Linux, ircle for Macintosh, or mIRC for Windows.
Do not get an obnoxious script that advertises itself on join. You may think the combination of alternating bold, underlined and randomly-colored text will prove to us what a witty and charming person you are, but it will not.
Try to connect to DALnet. Depending on a complex combination of the script kiddies’ moods, the phase of the moon, and the ability of the IRCops to actually keep DALnet up, running and sufficiently duct-taped, this may be impossible. I would suggest staying away from irc.dal.net, which rarely works properly, and instead suggest trying to connect directly to a specific working DALnet server.
Type /JOIN #. This should be the easiest step: hundreds of people perform this step every day without actually realizing it, so we are sure you can too.
You most likely do not.
Operator status, or “ops,” is given only to people who have already become channel “voices.” And one only becomes a voice after one has spent some time in the channel and become friends with—and trusted by—the ops and other voices. Operator status is not given out as an elitist status symbol. It is not given out to people merely because they think # is a “cool channel” and “@#” would look leet in a whois (# is nearly always +s anyway). Nor are ops given out because you may have chatted for five minutes with another op, and you now think you are a channel “friend.” Ops are only given to people who are well-known, well-trusted, moderately well-liked by most of the other ops, and known to behave responsibly.
aOps and sOps are not created arbitrarily by the founder or existing sOps. It is completely pointless to ever ask for aOp or sOp access to the channel. Generally speaking, you will only be considered for aOps if the founder has known you for several months, you have been opped repeatedly in the past, and you have behaved responsibly. In particular, if you are one of the few users who is already trusted to “hold down the fort” when no other ops are around, or when Services go offline, you are probably on your way to aOp.
New sOps are rarely if ever created, and one has to have been an aOp for some time before it is even considered.
Like the server MOTDs say about O-lines, the surest way to never get opped is to whine about it.
There are a multitude of reasons why you may have been kicked:
You were a newbie. # collects a great deal of newbies who do not know how to properly type a join command. All the ops, and in particular the founder, occassionally “clean” the channel by masskicking all the non-op, non-voice users, most of whom are idling and have no idea they are even still in #. If you got swept up in a masskick, well, sorry. It happens.
You were looking for “warez,”“filez,” or something else with a spurious z in it. # is not an MP3, movie, porn, warez, or stolen credit card channel. If you ask about any of these things, you will most likely be kicked and banned in short order. Typing triggers such as “!cc” or “@find” will nearly immediately earn you a bankick, no questions asked.
You were an errant bot, clone or drone. Just as # collects its fair share of lost newbies, it also collects a great deal of misprogrammed bots (the owners of which rarely seem to be more than unintelligible kiddies), misdirected clone floods, and badly-written drones. These are not tolerated.
You were a spammer. On-join spams advertising websites, whether they are intentional or whether you are infected with a Trojan, will eventually be noticed by someone and land you a swift kick in the ass.
You were a script spammer. Any scripts that advertise themselves (“I’m using AnNoY-EVeRyOnE SCriPT 9.0”) on-join will immediately earn you a bankick.
You were a “fly-by” newbie. Some newbies quickly realize they joined the wrong channel, only to part and… rejoin the channel. We have all watched in amazement as some geniuses continue to join, part, and join again more than a dozen times, sometimes leaking their stupidity (\join jakarta# … join\ # jakarta) into the channel in the process. Several of the ops, in particular our “attack lye,” are quite intolerant of this and will immediately bankick you on your second failed join.
You asked for ops or were otherwise obnoxious. You will most likely be quickly kicked for flooding, repeating, or harassing ops or voices.
You are an idiot.
You are really an idiot.
An op does not like you.
An op felt like it.
Weks is aaannngggrrryyy!!!
Originally, when J’raxis took over the channel on 2002-10-21, after the original founder departed, an enormous amount of effort was expended trying to set the channel up to be run in a manner as democratic and egalitarian as was possible. J’raxis originally acquired the channel through a vote held by all the ops (the second most-popular op in the channel became the successor), and an elaborate policy on the creation of new aOps and sOps was put into place: a vote would be held from time to time on new candidates, and if they garnered enough votes, they would be opped. New policies and policy changes would be adopted in a similar fashion.
One fatal flaw in the design of the system was that sOps held veto power over a vote, and one sOp in particular figured out that he could exploit this in order to prevent anyone he didn’t personally like from becoming an aOp, and to prevent policy additions or changes (most notably, changing this very veto policy). Because of this, and the cumbersome week-long procedure involved in a call for vote, J’raxis eventually got tired of handling them, and they stopped happening.
Therefore, the # policy as of 2004-12-08 is that new aOps are created by the founder, through a general consensus of approval by the extant aOps and sOps, as is typical in most channels.
The text that you may often see in the # topic, if you have the correct Arabic fonts installed, should appear as:
انا شمسوي بدنيتي كل ما اطقها عويه(For those who can’t read the Arabic, that’s “ānā shemsawī bedenyetī kel mā āṭeqhā ʻaweyah” in Roman script.)
In English, this means something like “What have I done in my life? Whenever I try something, it goes wrong.” This rather poetic variant of the oft-heard newbie cry “Oops! Wrong channel!” was uttered by a Saudi newbie named al-Shayb when he fell into the channel by accident on 2005-02-19. Considering how many newbies fall into # completely by accident, it seemed like an àpropos slogan for the channel, and it has appeared in the topic ever since.
Thanks to al-Shayb for ejaculating this little gem at us, and Badr for transliterating and translating it.