IRC channel/Management

   01:01 +glguy> +mz an wait for a on topic question
   01:01 +glguy> all of the offtopic conversations die off
   01:01 +glguy> because no one can see any responses to them

   01:01 +dons> so the plan should be to ban redirect people into here to talk to them?
   01:01 +dons> or privmsg, because it's calmer?

   01:02 +glguy> redirect ban to here is good for wide-reaching bans
   01:02 +glguy> say all of tor
   01:02 +glguy> or *ass*!*@*
   01:02 +glguy> where you are likely to have some false positives
   01:02 +glguy> I don't like them as much for specific bans
   01:03 +glguy> other uses are redirect bans to ##fix_your_connection
   01:03 +glguy> where you aren't punishing the person
   01:03 +glguy> and want them to know that their join/quit flood isn't allowed

   01:04 +glguy> You can "remove"
   01:04 +glguy> that forces a PART
   01:04 +glguy> instead of a KICK
   01:04 +glguy> the difference being that many clients don't auto-rejoin
   01:04 +glguy> on PART

   01:05 +glguy> +q ____   and +b %____ are identical and just silence the offender
   01:05 +glguy> but don't prevent joins

   01:07 +glguy> oh, and don't forget about +d bans
   01:07 +glguy> they match on the "real name" field