Aerandria Staff

Blend-If Burning – ‘Autoburn’

Suyara — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:02:22 +0000

Blend-If Burning – ‘Autoburn’

You can burn by hand, but you might make a mistake and not be able to fix it. And burning by hand can affect midtones you don’t want to touch. I hand burned the above image, it didn’t take too long and the result reflects this. Never the less, the parts we need black have been burned.

If you wanted to be able to fix an error you may have made, you can always use an adjustment layer. Quick mask all the parts you need black and then make an adjustment layer that darkens it all. It fixes the problem of not being able to undo burning, but you still have to do that for every page. What if your page knew already what you wanted black? ^^ And so our long boring ‘Getting to Know Your Options’ comes into play~ If we use ‘Blend If’ to cut out all the white, and light grey colors, then it will know where to darken, all on by itself! That could save you a lot of time, and it’s just about as accurate as hand burning.

Now, let’s face it, this isn’t perfect. You might have to brush off some of it, if it effects something you don’t want it to. (By selecting the levels mask, and using a black brush erase some of it.) But it could, with scripts, make bruning a lot faster and more automatic.

A note though, you want to be careful with layer stacking and autoburn. If you place the auto-burn under a levels layer that darkens the lines from grey to black, then aut-burn will not work. Similarly, if you place it above the layer that darkens the greys, it will cut out more. So, keep this in mind when making your script: Layer carefully.

Layer Burning & ‘Auto-Burn’

Even if you level properly you will still need to burn places that should be black, but aren’t. The WORST practise, in my opinion, is burning by hand. The reason I feel this way is because you can never undo it. There are several simple methods with which you can nicely ‘burn’, and still be able to adjust of fix things later, if you need to. The first methods is probably the simpilest way: Quick mask areas that need darkened, and then make an adjustment levels layer that does this. It will work very well and you can alter it any time.

Getting to know your Options

Suyara — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:53:09 +0000

Blending Options" src="http://www.surrealsuyara.com/images/Other/AE/menu.png" alt="" width="200" height="239" />Under your blending options there are three sections: General Blending, Advanced Blending, & Blend If.

General blending – ‘Blend Mode’ is basically how the layer you’re adjusting is blended with the layers below it. Each mode effects the leyers below in unique ways. To understand this more try playing with them or reading about how each of them work. On a group the blend mode is set to ‘Pass Through’ by default. It means that all blending modes used in the group will also effect everything outside of the group, below it. (If a groups blending mode is set to normal, it will stop the groups inner layers and their blending modes from effecting the layers below it.) ‘Layer opacity’ is the entire layers opacity and the opacity of all styles/effects (stroke, drop shadow, pattern overlay, ect.).

Advanced Blending – ‘Fill Opacity’ is the opacity of the layer itself, and does not set the opacity for strokes ect. ‘Channels’ uses the greyscale data on the layer you’re adjusting to alter the color channels of the layers below (generally following the pattern; Black parts of the layer are used to alter the below layers via something comparable to RGB, and the White parts of the layer are used to alter the below layers via the equivalent of CMYK). ‘Knockout’ should be used on a layer in a group. When Knockout is set to ‘Deep’ the group will not alter an layers below it, and will pass through them, straight down to the background layer. (And if that isn’t set, is will pass through them all.) When set to ‘Shallow’ it will not alter the very next layer that is visable, outside of the group, but will effect all layers after. The check boxes are pretty self evident: ‘Layer mask hides effects’ & ‘Vector mask hides effects’ means that a layer/vector mask will also cut strokes, & drop shadows. They treat the layer and it’s styles/effects as one layer, together. This is useful for typesetting and whatnot, when you don’t want effects to go around what you’ve just cut away with a mask.

Blend If – These settings are quite useful, as they allow you to ‘cut out’ parts of the current layer via it’s own colors, or the layer below it via it’s respective colors. (And both.) Using the drop down, you select which channel you want to use (Red, Green, Blue & Gray).

Picture time! Blend If & ‘Cutting out’

In order to fully understand how this works I’m going to use two layers, one of a pattern and one of a basic red layer.

Dragging the bottom slider, named ‘Underlining Layer’, will cut out the current layer depending on the layer below it. On the ‘Gray’ setting, moving the white slider to the left cuts out the current layer where the layers below it are white:

If you were to drag the other slider, the black one, it would do the opposite; It would cut out the layer where the black shades are, on the layers below it:

Now, the edges are very sharp like this. But luckily there’s a way to soften them up. We’re going to go back to cutting out based on the white parts, with the white slider. OK, if you Alt + click on the white slider it will seperate. This makes two little white halves. The first half, on the left, will be how far you want to cut; The second half is how far you want to soften. Basically, you can think of it as an opacity – the left half is 100%, and the right half is 0% opacity. (I’m not going to go into how this actually works.) It’s similar with the black slider, only the slider halves are reversed: left half is 0% and the right is 100%.

The top sliders, named ‘This Layer’, do the same thing, only they do it to the layer you’re adjusting. To show it best, I am using a layer with a pattern:

You can also combine the effects, using both sliders:

For more advanced blending, with photos and images, you’ll can use each of the color fields and their respective sliders. Like, for example, if you selected blue, and moved the white slider, you would cut out the pattern layer where the the below layers don’t have a sade of blue. If you moved the black slider it would do the opposite; It would cut out the pattern layer where the below layers do have a shade of blue. (I know, it doesn’t quite make sense like this, but it’s actually based on the rgb channel.)

Interview – Bathroom Tile RP

craxx — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:15:49 +0000

When I asked these questions, it happened to be our staff were immersed in Bathroom-Tile RP.. XDD

1. Please introduce yourselves to our fine readers.

Openlygray (Raz): Hi. I’m openlygray. I’m constantly shunned by the rest of the staff because of my…unclear color.

Mauve(Laca): MY ANSWER? I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT I AM NOT… OPENLYGRAY…

TerraCotta(jojo):Hi I am TerraCotta and I’d rather not be the chamber pot in the bathroom but a tile along with the rest of you. Thank you.

2. Tell us about your scanlation group. How and when was it started and where did the name come from? What series do you scanlate?

Openlygray: I can’t remember when it started. Probably when I realized I could no longer be closeted gray. I realized that just because I’m not light enough to be white or dark enough to be black, doesn’t mean I should be treated less equally. I mean, Gray is a color too!

* OpenlyGray is hoping Homongeneous(craxx) doesn’t take it seriously though.

Periwinkle (Ad): We’re a serious group Rax, what do you expect? ['-']
OpenlyGray: omg we are?!

3. Is it true Midnight Secretary led to one of the staff having a baby? XD

Homongenous: What do you think? http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2353/21839129493378723316469.jpg

4. Did you watch the Koizora film/drama and if so what was your opinion of it?

Homongenous: I only watched the film.. there’s a drama?! I can say the film what led me to the manga… It’s urm.. sad? XD

5. How did you personally get into the scanlation scene? Were you previously a member of other scanlation groups?

TerraCotta: It was fate. One day we all looked around and realized we were tiles… and bored in a bathroom. We had to do something didn’t we? So we formed a scanlation group

* TerraCotta looks innocent

I mean, seriously, dirt is the bane of our existence anyway. It was a natural transition. We were anti-dirt, so are scanlation groups ['-']

6. Do you have any memorable stories from your scanlating experience?

TerraCotta: That time we all changed our names to colors and pretended to be bathroom tiles for a scanlation interview was pretty cool

OpenlyGray: when hot women are showering. i lose more color and become more gray.

7. What process do you go through to decide what new manga to pick up?

Mauve: We basically just bully each other around and threaten to unleash the fury of megatron till we give in

OpenlyGray: I begrudgingly translate whatever series they give me. after all, i’m just a gray tile.

8. If you could go on a date with any character from a manga you scanlate or have scanlated in the past, who would it be?

OpenlyGray: I haven’t encountered any character from our series worthy of my ceramic love, my GRAY, ceramic love.

Beige: Ludwig, Tomoe, the guy from HM, or Prince Will

Periwinkle: The mysterious nameless penguin in the new ohmi tomu oneshot

TerraCotta: There was this one scene in Midnight Secretary where they were in the bathroom. I have to admit that the LightBlue tile was pretty cute

OpenlyGray: TerraCotta! That’s brother, you ****!
–next scene is cut–

10. Would you rather give up smut/BL or kill a puppy?

Periwinkle: Give up smut/BL. What kind of people do you think we are? Puppy killers? D:

Beige: [-_-]/ âˆ‘:o]

OpenlyGray: I’ll give up BL happily. It just isn’t my thing, being gray as a window, and all.

Beige: how cute is the puppy?

11. Any closing comments?

TerraCotta: We promise we aren’t really crazy?

TerraCotta: Just easily amused XD

We’re the.. AElite~

craxx — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:24:53 +0000

Yep, like what I’m doing for Akagami now. Ideally… I would prep it with SOs

you would then TS it on the resized page

hmmmmm

and clay would CN it inside the SO that contains the unresized version

WOOT \o/

\o/

I think clay should be our elite CN instead of editor when she’s not busy later……

and I would be our elite prepper if I wasn’t QC/slow~

XDDD

Well… maybe

that’s kind of a stretch XD

and you’re our elite TSer already

We three could form into a super team >]

uoh!

I like that

XDDDD

super elite team!

Combined with jojo’s scanner skills… we would be unstoppable!

hahaha

we’re the unbreakable E! *makes E logo like S-for Superman

Hahaha

We’re the.. AElite~

Fufufufu

uoh~ cool~

XDD

I feel like pasting these in staff blog

Maybe we should, the staff blog has been neglected~

We… who never stop to dream… XDDD

Yep, like what I’m doing for Akagami now. Ideally… I would prep it with SOs

you would then TS it on the resized page

hmmmmm

and clay would CN it inside the SO that contains the unresized version

WOOT \o/

\o/

I think clay should be our elite CN instead of editor when she’s not busy later……

and I would be our elite prepper if I wasn’t QC/slow~

XDDD

Well… maybe

that’s kind of a stretch XD

and you’re our elite TSer already

We three could form into a super team >]

uoh!

I like that

XDDDD

super elite team!

Combined with jojo’s scanner skills… we would be unstoppable!

hahaha

we’re the unbreakable E! *makes E logo like S-for Superman

Hahaha

We’re the.. AElite~

Fufufufu

uoh~ cool~

XDD

I feel like pasting these in staff blog

Maybe we should, the staff blog has been neglected~

Fonts for Series

craxx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:47:22 +0000

Do use ctrl+F for your convenient~

General Font for notes: Zud Juice

Download Aerandria Font Pack

Dokuhime

Chapter Title Headings: Comic City

Normal: Laffayette Comic Pro

Thoughts/general narration: Manga Temple, #555555

Narration (boxes): Manga Temple

Small: China cat

Gakkou no Sensei

Manga Title Font:Verdana

Chapter Title Font: 4eyoin

Table of Contents: Verdana

Normal: Zud Juice, black

Thoughts/general narration: Feltmark #555555

Narration (boxes): Feltmark, black

Small: Joyful Juliana, Sharp

Goraihou Gakuen e Youkoso!

Normal: Mighty Zeo Caps

Thoughts/general narration: Andy #666666

Narration (boxes): Pristina

Small: Joyful Juliana

HapiMari

Normal: Digital Strip

Thought Bubbles: Digital Strip, #555555 Italic

Thoughts (background): Felt, #555555

Narration (boxes): Felt

Small: Kristen ITC

Shout Bubbles: Digital Strip, Bold

Calls: Audimat

Chapter / End Font: Neucha

Horror Collector

Normal: Komika Text Light, caps

Thoughts/general narration: Viner Hand ITC

Narration (boxes): Viner Hand ITC

Small: Augie

Kimi wa Boku no Toriko Nare

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Andy

Narration (boxes): Pristina

Small: Kristen ITC

Kurobara Alice

Normal:

Thoughts/general narration:

Narration (boxes):

Small:

Mishounen Produce

Normal:

Thoughts/general narration:

Narration (boxes):

Small:

Oh! My Prince

Manga Title Font:

Table of Contents:

Normal:

Thoughts/general narration:

Narration (boxes):

Small:

Chapter / End Font:

Oneichan to Issho

Manga Title Font: Shirley

Table of Contents: BlacklightD

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Wild Words 666666

Narration (boxes): Angelina

Small: Kristen ITC

Chapter / End Font: Oh Crap/Oh Crud

Purple Eyes

Normal: Zud Juice, black

Thoughts/general narration: Feltmark #555555

Narration (boxes): Feltmark, black

Small: Joyful Juliana, Sharp

Raspberry Field no Majo

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Komika Hands #6666666

Narration (boxes): Zap Raygun v2.0

Small: China Cat

Ruri no Kaze ni Hana wa Nagareru

Manga Title Font: BlackRose

Normal: DigitalStrip

Thoughts/general narration: Felt 555555

Narration (boxes): CCYuletideLog

Small: Chinacat

Chapter / End Font: Eras Demi ITC

Seishun Kouryokuhon

Normal: Laffayette Comic Pro

Thoughts/general narration: same font as above/#7e7e7e

Narration (boxes): pristina/#7e7e7e

Small: Augie

Shinyaku Ookami Ga Kuru!

Normal:

Thoughts/general narration:

Narration (boxes):

Small:

Shounen Dolls

Normal:

Thoughts/general narration:

Narration (boxes):

Small:

Sora Log

Normal: Zud Juice

Thoughts: angelina (outside bubbles), Zud Juice italics, #555555 (inside bubbles)

Narration (boxes): desyrel

Small: kirsten itc

Tamashiizume

Normal: CC astro

Thoughts/general narration: CC astro Italic #555555

Narration (boxes): CC Yuletide

Small: Chinacat

Xia ke Xing

Normal: Wild Words, black

Thoughts/general narration: Wild Words, italics, #555555

Narration (boxes): Andy

Small: Augie, sharp

Yasashii Ryuu Koroshikata

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Felt faux italics #666666

Narration (boxes): Gothikka strong

Small: Augie

Magic Spells: CCYuletideLog

Shoujo no Melancholy

Normal: Wild Words
Thoughts: Wild Words, gray, italics
Narration: Felt
Small text: China cat

Full Moon

Normal: Wild Words

Excited Text: Wild Words Bold (separate font than Wild Words)

Thoughts in Bubbles: Wild Words Italic 666666

Thoughts/general narration: Felt 666666

Narration (boxes): Franciscan

Kei’s Exorcism Attacks: Earthquake

Demons: Chiller or other “horror” variant

Small: Augie

Kaizoku to Ningyou

dialogue: Komika Slick

General thoughts: Komika Parch #666666

small: lacartoonerie sharp

chapter titles/ending: series orbit

narrative: komika parch black

Chikutaku Bonbon

Normal: Wild Words

Narration (in box): Mighty Zeo, black

Thoughts outside and inside bubbles: Mighty Zeo, 666666

Small font: FG Charyn

Title: Pristina

Team Rocket Deja Vu~

Adrift — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:52:37 +0000

[02:53] o/
[02:53] Laca~
[02:53] suya~
[02:53] ^^
[02:53] * Lacaille cues the sunset background
[02:53] lol
[02:54] * Suyara cues the sparkles and slow motion
[02:54] XDDD
[02:54] * Lacaille runs toward suya
[02:54] * Suyara runs to laca, arms outstretched!
[03:35] * MiniCass sits back to watch
[03:35] * MiniCass munches on popcorn
[03:35] * MiniCass waits for the kissing to start
[03:35] * Lacaille pokes MiniCass
[03:36] lol
[03:36] awww
[03:36] and it was getting to the good part
[03:36] * Lacaille reaches for suya’s hand
[03:36] * Lacaille runs with suya
[03:36] * Lacaille runs with suya towards minicass
[03:36] * Suyara giggles~
[03:36] !
[03:37] * MiniCass runs away
[03:37] * Lacaille ties up MiniCass with suya’s help
[03:37] T___T
[03:37] hehe
[03:37] Oh my~
[03:37] * Lacaille folds MiniCass into a ball
[03:37] it had to happen when I don’t have school as an excuse ; ;
[03:37] * Lacaille throws minicass ball into the air for suya to catch
[03:38] yay!
[03:38] * Suyara catches cass and tosses him back
[03:38] * MiniCass starts to feel motion sick
[03:38] * Lacaille gets her bat ready
[03:38] * Lacaille batters up
[03:39] * MiniCass pukes on Lacaille
[03:39] * Lacaille hits the minicass ball and gets a homerun
[03:39] * Lacaille watches the horizon
[03:39] IIIIIIIIIIII’LLLLLLLLLLL BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
[03:39] lol
[03:39] XD
[03:39] so cute
[03:40] you took a picture, right, suya?
[03:41] Totally!
[03:41] * Suyara posts it on the ae wall
[03:42] whooo~
[04:04] lol
-Hours later-
[08:30] IIIIIIIIIIII’LLLLLLLLLLL BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK <– I just had a Pokemon flash back :(
[08:30] Silly Team Rocket…
[08:37] XDDDD
[08:37] you missed it XD

Welcome to the Party, Cass…

isengaurd — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:41:14 +0000

(@craxx) lol the staffers are smut faeries.. :O
(!Lacaille) XDD

(CassiusOS) i am NOT a smut fairy
(!Lacaille) >]
(CassiusOS) I am a smut GNOME thank you very much
(@craxx) lol
(!Lacaille) not smut pimp?
(CassiusOS) i’m not dirty like a pimp
(CassiusOS) maybe imp
(CassiusOS) not pimp
(!Lacaille) XD
(!Lacaille) I’m a dirty old man
(CassiusOS) i need to learn to keep my mouth shut

IRC Basics

isengaurd — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:52:32 +0000

I promised I would add this a while back. Some of us are familiar with these instructions, and some (like me) will learn a good bit the first time we read it. I know I did.

18:29:57) (@Class) *~Class – Simple Channel Administration Lecture ~*
(18:30:02) (@Class)
(18:30:03) (@Class) Welcome to #class. Today we will be discussing Basic Channel Administration. This is a simple guide to Create, Register, add a BotServ bot, and to add friends to the access list.

(18:30:25) (@Class)
(18:30:26) (@Class) Creating a channel
(18:30:29) (@Class) /join #yourchannelname, where yourchannelname = the name of the channel you wish to create.
(18:30:39) (@Class)
(18:30:40) (@Class) Registering your channel
(18:30:43) (@Class) /chanserv register #channelname password description
(18:30:47) (@Class) You will need a registered nick and be at least op (@) in the channel you want to register, before you type in the command.
(18:31:06) (@Class)
(18:31:07) (@Class) Getting a BotServ bot
(18:31:10) (@Class) /botserv botlist – Use this command to retrieve a list of available bots. Once you have picked a bot, then use /botserv assign #channel

botnick. This bot will now act as ChanServ in your channel.
(18:31:36) (@Class)
(18:31:37) (@Class) Channel Access Levels
(18:31:39) (@Class) Default Levels are as follows; 3 = Channel Voice (+), 4 = Channel Halfop (%), 5-9 = Channel Op (@), 10-9999 = Channel Admin (!)
(18:31:58) (@Class) – /chanserv access #channel add nick level – Use this command to add users to your channel access list.
(18:32:12) (@Class) – /chanserv access #channel del nick – Use this command to delete users from your channel access list.
(18:32:26) (@Class) – /chanserv set #channel successor nick – Use this command to set a successor for your channel. A successor will be the new founder for

your channel if your nick expires or gets dropped.
(18:35:38) (!Genji) well theres halfop
(18:35:44) (!Genji) regular op
(18:35:46) (!Genji) and founder
(18:35:54) (!dev0) and admin
(18:35:57) (!Indoril) ! @ % + are the different modes
(18:36:15) (!Indoril) + cant kick anyone, % cant kick @, @ cant kick !
(18:36:19) (!Genji) halfops (%) generally just can kick and ban regular users
(18:36:22) (!Genji) and set the topic
(18:36:32) (!dev0) and for those who wonder, founder and admin share the same icon here -> !
04(18:46:50) (isengaurd) how do you find out the specific functions of each bot or are they all the same?
(18:47:00) (!Indoril) they are all the same
04(18:47:03) (isengaurd) once you list them that is
04(18:47:08) (isengaurd) oh
04(18:47:10) (isengaurd) so
04(18:47:21) (isengaurd) it doesnt matter which one
(18:47:29) (!Peorth) no
(18:47:34) (!Indoril) nope, you just pick the one you think sound coolest
(18:47:38) (!Peorth) the function of the bot Saber is no different from the bot Helper
(18:47:40) (!Peorth) for example.
(18:47:44) (!Peorth) they all do the exact same thing
04(18:47:51) (isengaurd) ok
(18:48:04) (!Indoril) the only difference is Peorth, only ircops can assign helper
(18:48:12) (!Peorth) Indeed
(18:48:20) (!Peorth) Helper was the only other bot I could think of though ;)
04(18:48:20) (isengaurd) and they can be configured differently for each channel?
(18:48:25) (!Peorth) yes.
19:22:44) (@Class) BotServ
(19:22:45) (@Class)
(19:22:46) (@Class) How to use BotServ and what it’s for
(19:22:51) (@Class) BotServ is a service available to channel operators that helps them maintain their channel. It is used to control network “bots” which can

be assigned to channels.
(19:23:11) (@Class)
(19:23:13) (@Class) Here are the commands available for controlling the bots:
(19:23:20) (@Class) “/msg botserv botlist” – This is for seeing the available bots that one can assign to their channel.
(19:23:33) (@Class) “/msg botserv assign ” – This assigns the bot with the given nick to the given channel.
(19:23:47) (@Class) “/msg botserv set

the channel in order to use a command, for example: users must have enough access for the OP/DEOP level in a channel to use !op). This mode is on by

default.
(19:25:40) (@Class) -”SYMBIOSIS ” Enables or disables symbiosis mode on a channel. When it is enabled, the bot will do everything normally done

by ChanServ on channels, such as MODEs, KICKs, and even the entry message. This mode is on by default.
(19:26:09) (@Class)
(19:26:10) (@Class) “/msg botserv kick

number of times a user can be kicked before it gets banned. Don’t give ttb to disable the ban system once activated.
(19:27:00) (@Class) -”BADWORDS [ttb]” – Sets the bad words kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who say certain

words on the channels.
(19:27:22) (@Class) You can define bad words for your channel using the BADWORDS command.
(19:27:31) (@Class) -”CAPS [ttb [min [percent]]]” – Sets the caps kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who are

talking in CAPS. The bot kicks only if there are at least min caps and they constitute at least percent% of the total text line (if not given, it defaults to 10

characters and 25%).
(19:28:17) (@Class) -”COLORS [ttb]” – Sets the colors kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who use colors.
(19:28:35) (@Class) -”FLOOD [ttb [ln [secs]]]” – Sets the flood kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who are flooding

the channel using at least ln lines in secs seconds (if not given, it defaults to 6 lines in 10 seconds).
(19:29:09) (@Class) -”REPEAT [ttb [num]]” – Sets the repeat kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who are repeating

themselves num times (if num is not given, it defaults to 3).
(19:29:37) (@Class) -”REVERSES [ttb]” – Sets the reverses kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who use reverses.
(19:29:55) (@Class) -”UNDERLINES [ttb]” – Sets the underlines kicker on or off. When enabled, this option tells the bot to kick users who use

underlines.
(19:30:14) (@Class)
(19:30:15) (@Class) “/msg botserv badwords

specified, a kick will be done only if a user says the entire word. If START is specified, a kick will be done if a user says a word that starts with word. If END

is specified, a kick will be done if a user says a word that ends with word. If you don’t specify anything, a kick will be issued every time word is said by a

user.
12(19:30:52) —› part: (Haou_Delio) (~Heroofthe@23fa4838.6a63aef.tx.charter.com)
(19:31:40) (@Class) -”DEL ” – The BADWORDS DEL command removes the given word from the bad words list. If a list of entry

numbers is given, those entries are deleted. For example: BADWORDS del #channel 2-5 would delete entries 2-5 in the badwords list.
(19:31:40) (@Class)
(19:32:14) (@Class) -”LIST [mask | list]” – The BADWORDS LIST command displays the bad words list.
(19:32:24) (@Class) If a wildcard mask is given, only those entries matching the mask are displayed.
(19:32:35) (@Class) If a list of entry numbers is given, only those entries are shown, like in the example with deleting above.
(19:32:50) (@Class) -”CLEAR” – Clears all of the entries of the badwords list.
(19:32:58) (@Class)
(19:32:59) (@Class) “/msg botserv act ” – Makes the bot do an action in the given channel with the given text (like a /me command).
(19:33:17) (@Class) “/msg botserv info ” – Gives information about the bot with the nick requested, such as how many channels it’s in.
(19:33:33) (@Class) “/msg botserv say ” – Makes the bot say the given text in the given channel.
(19:33:46) (@Class) “/msg botserv unassign ” – Unassigns a bot from the given channel.
(19:33:55) (@Class)
(19:33:56) (@Class) Other Notes on BotServ
(19:33:59) (@Class) * Note that on our network, “/msg botserv” can be substituted with “/bs” as a shortcut.
(19:34:11) (@Class) * Only one bot can be assigned to a channel at a time. If one tries to assign a bot to a channel in which a bot already resides, the bot

already there will automatically leave and the new bot assigned will join.
(19:34:42) (@Class) * Bots cannot be assigned to channels without any users currently in them.
(19:34:52) (@Class)
(19:34:53) (@Class) In Conclusion…
(19:34:54) (@Class) BotServ is a very useful tool for managing a channel. It can catch bad words and kick and/or ban the user for saying them. It can simplify

doing op commands by enabling one to type shortcuts such as “!kick Genji that was a dumb class”
(19:35:24) (@Class) It can be used to greet users. And it has very effective flood control.
(19:35:34) (@Class) Don’t forget that if you forget any of this or need to look at it more closely you can obtain any of this information using “/msg botserv

help”
19:36:30) (@Class) Question(#1): i set the greet option yet i didn’t get grreted why?
(19:36:43) (!Indoril) because you havent set an entry message
(19:37:13) (!Indoril) /chanserv set #channel ENTRYMSG your message
(20:34:19) (@Class) How to use #abuse…Or: So you think you’ve been the victim of abuse on IRCHighWay?
(20:34:30) (@Class)
(20:34:31) (@Class) What is considered ‘abuse’?
(20:34:34) (@Class) – If you ban someone from your channel, and they keep getting around your ban, we can take action against them.
(20:34:50) (@Class) – If someone is flooding either a channel or a user, we can handle that, as well.
(20:35:02) (@Class) – If someone is harassing you (racial/religious insults, as an example), either in channel or in PM, we will likely ask them to stop or take

further action if the need arises.
(20:35:26) (@Class) – If a user is spamming either another user or a channel with unsolicited text/advertisements, “including” the spread of virus,

IRCHighWay network staff will be happy to help you.
(20:35:48) (@Class) – If someone is trying to DDoS you or hack your computer, and assuming you have “firm” evidence of this, we will take action.
(20:36:06) (@Class) – Finally, if you feel like an IRCOperator has abused their powers against you or your channel, please contact us. IRCHighWay takes

these matters very seriously.
(20:36:26) (@Class)
(20:36:27) (@Class) What can you do?
(20:36:30) (@Class) If you believe you are the victim of abuse, the best place to go is to #abuse, where our staff will assist you by investigating and taking

appropriate action, if deemed necessary.
(20:36:54) (@Class) Please, do not ask for abuse-related assistance in another of our official channels (#IRCHighWay, #help, #VHost, etc); #abuse is the best

channel for you to join with regards to these issues.
(20:37:16) (@Class)
(20:37:17) (@Class) What can IRCHighWay do?”
(20:37:21) (@Class) If our investigation proves you right, we may take actions ranging from a warning, to a network ban, to a demotion (in the case where an

“IRCOperator” is involved.)
(20:37:42) (@Class) I hope you find this class both interesting and informative, and that you will now have the knowledge needed to report abusive users.

Sorry for the timestamps. I’ve had a rough night and am about to head to bed. Hope this helps some of you, it did me.

Emperor Penguin

isengaurd — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:38:25 +0000

Our Mascot for Lacaille ^^

Thought you might like this. :)

The Meanies; And What to do With Them

Lacaille — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:33:10 +0000

I just thought I might share this post with you guys. I’ve been through this a few times and just wanted to share what we could all do to get past it and still have our sense of self intact. Happy reading and if all else fails, all of us are here as each other’s sounding board. ^^

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/mean-spirited-comments-and-blogging/