Webmasters

Before we begin...

This help is intended for webmasters only. If you want to register a room and do not have a Java applet on your site, then you will not be able to get any help from CC Staff, and you will not be allowed to get chatters from other websites' rooms. Channel owners are warned that any attempt to advertise/promote their channel in any other channel is a serious offence, as is asking others to advertise/promote the room for you. This applies regardless of who is promoting the site, and regardless of whether it's in a whisper/message/query or in the room/channel.

CentralChat expect all rooms to be owned by webmasters with CentralChat applets on their sites, and we will do our best to support webmasters and protect their rooms against those that advertise in them.

If you're a webmaster and you have discovered that people are promoting other chat rooms in your room or to chatters in your room through private messages, then inform a member of staff in #helpdesk.

Before you can register your chat room

First, you need to have registered your nickname (and be using your registered name at the time of registering your room). You also need to be a Channel Operator in your room (an @ symbol will appear in front of your name).

Registering the room with ChanServ

So.. when you've done all that, you're now ready to actually register the room. You'll need to specify the name of the room (called #chan in our example). If you already have a CentralChat chat box on your Web site, the room name is the name that you typed into the HTML generator form. If you typed 'chan' in the form, then your room name is #chan. You will need to join your chat room to register it.

/join #chan

To register your room, type this command into the chat. You will need to replace #CHAN with the name of your chat room, PASSWORD with the password you want to use (this can be the same as your nickname password if you want), and DESCRIPTION with a brief description of the chat room. You can change the password and the description later if you wish.

/cs register #CHAN PASSWORD DESCRIPTION

ChanServ should say the room has been registered successfully, unless someone else has already registered it. If it complains for any other reason, make sure you have done all the above correctly.

Making yourself an Auto-Op

Once your room is registered, you'll need to ensure you are automatically Opped when you enter. In mIRC, go to File > Options, then under the IRC sub-menu, go to Perform.
Add the following lines to perform:-

/ns identify YOURPASS
/join #YOURCHAN

If you are using the Java chat applet, you will need to identify with NickServ before you join your chat room in order to get automatically opped.

Make sure you specify the correct passwords, and that the box saying "perform these commands on connect" is checked. This means that every time you connect to CentralChat, you will automatically enter your room and be Opped immediately.

Setting Auto-Ops, Auto-Voices and Co-founders.

You can set your room so that other people are auto-superop, auto-op, auto-halop or auto-voice. Auto voice (mode +v) doesn't do much except make that person immune from BotServ flood protection and if the channel becomes moderated (+m) then people with +v can speak. Auto op (+o) gives that person the right to kick and ban people from that channel. Auto super op (+ao) gives that user the channel protected mode (+a) and rights to add to the auto kick list (another feature you can find in ChanServ by typing /msg ChanServ help akick).

How to add someone as an auto-voice in your room:-

/cs access #YOURCHAN add USERNAME 3

How to add someone as an auto-halfop in your room:-

/cs access #YOURCHAN add USERNAME 4

How to add someone as an auto-op in your room:-

/cs access #YOURCHAN add USERNAME 5

How to add someone as a auto-super op in your room:-

/cs access #YOURCHAN add USERNAME 10

To delete someone's access in your room:-

/cs access #YOURCHAN del USERNAME

Protecting your room

If you want to dis-allow swearing in your channel (this is highly recommended and may be essential if you wish your chatroom to be listed on the CentralChat list), then use the following command:-

/mode #YOURCHAN +G

Note: the G above must be capital G, all modes are case sensitive!)