Language#Linux is primarily an
English-only channel. We ask that everyone speak in plain English.
"u" and "ur" are not words. Many of our users have translators for
translating plain English into their own language. Please be
considerate of those people and remember this is not
AOL. Do
not use excessive punctuation to draw attention to yourself. Do
not type in all CAPS. Do not speak in actions (using /me or /ame
to say sentences that are not actions). Do not type "/me Hello"
or "/ame Hello". "Hello" is not an action. Just type "Hello" and
press Enter. Asking for help
If you need help and wish to ask a question, PLEASE, just ask! Don't
ask to ask, don't ask if there is anyone who can help, don't ask if
anyone is alive; just ask your question. There are many users in
#Linux that will
help you with a Linux-related problem.
Anyone who desires to help you with a problem you may be having will
be volunteering their time and services. Ask your question in the
channel and wait for a kind person to offer to assist you. We don't get
paid for our time on #Linux, so we might not answer
right away. Ask your question in a concise, detailed way so we can help
you better. You can read
this
for a guide on asking good questions. While you await someone to
respond, search Google for your problem. If you
don't know what to search for, ask in the channel for some keywords or
terms to help you search. Pasting or flooding
If you have information such as errors or commands that you wish to
share with the channel, please use a pastebin. There are
many of them
available all over the Internet. Do not flood our channel with a paste.
People who choose to flood will be silenced so they can have time to
read this rule again.
Sending channel-wide notices or CTCPs will not be tolerated. Doing so
will be grounds for an immediate ban. Broken Enter key
Please learn how to type out your entire thought before pressing Enter.
We read from left to right, not top to bottom. Some people would like
to take up an entire screen to say one sentence. However, we cannot
allow one person to take up the entire screen with one single message.
Example:
<`MoDy`> script
<`MoDy`> for open this things
<`MoDy`> if u checked this ip
<`MoDy`> u will see
<`MoDy`> but now the problem with me
<`MoDy`> how can i share this htmls
Typing in this manner is just as bad as flooding our channel with
worthless information. Do not do it. Repeating
If you want to state your problem in the channel and ask for help,
please do so. However, you may not continuously repeat your question.
We are able to read your questions if you say it only one time.
Repeating yourself will become an annoyance and you will not get help.
State your problem and ask your question one time. After a reasonable
amount of time has passed, and there has been significant scroll in
the channel (your question can no longer be seen on the screen), you
may ask your question again. If someone wants to help, they will answer
you or ask for more information on your topic. If no one answers, it's
because we do have lives and cannot read the channel in real-time.
Do not send the same line of text repeatedly. This is an annoyance and
shall not be allowed. Highlighting users
If you are looking for help with a given topic, ask your question in the
channel. Do not randomly pick a nickname to address with your problem.
Chances are you will annoy that person and not get any help at all from
them anyway. Do not address people with your questions when they join
the channel or when they begin talking. As individuals, we don't care;
as a channel, we want everyone to have the opportunity to answer your
questions. Arbitrarily addressing a user or op that did not indicate to
you they wish to help will get you known as an annoyance. Also, there
is no reason to put a person's nickname on a line all by itself. If you
are addressing a person directly, put the message on the same line as
the nickname. Example:
<Cancel> Dj_Tiesto
This is not acceptable. See, also, the Broken enter key section above. You
don't get to fill the screen with single words. Private messaging
You may not send private messages to users or ops from
#Linux unless you have their
permission, explicit or implied. If you wish to send private messages
to someone, just ask them in the channel if you may send them a
private message. If they want to talk to you in private, they will
respond to you with explicit permission. Away/Back announcements
Feel free to come or go as much as you like. However, we don't care
when you go away or come back. Keep it to yourself unless you are
actually pausing an active conversation. Public away status nicknames
should also not be used. We don't want to see that you are sleeping,
at school, at work -- automatically or otherwise. Your IRC client
should not announce to #Linux when you go away, become
idle, or come back from away/idle. If you are using a BNC that
changes your nickname when you disconnect or go away, and then again
when you reconnect, you will be banned. If your client or scripts
are continuously changing from a guest nickname to your normal
nickname while you are away (causing a loop), you will be banned.
We require a reasonable amount of netiquette to be followed while
you are here. The channel should be free from clutter and annoyances
whenever possible. You can learn more about disabling away/back
announcements
here.
We will not tolerate these announcements. Playing music
If you would like to listen to music while you are on
#Linux, please do. However, we
don't care what track you are listening to and we don't want to see it
in the channel. If you have scripts to automatically announce to all
channels what track you are listening to, you must disable it while you
are here. Helping others
You may offer your help if someone asks for help on
#Linux. You are not required to
help others, but your time is appreciated if you do help. You may help
others in private if you/he/she desires, but we prefer the conversation
remains in the public channel so that others can learn from it, as
well. (Please refer to the
Private messages section above.) If
someone needs help searching for material on the Internet, please
suggest they use Google or any other high-quality
site that you endorse (as long as it has pertinent content).
Bad/malicious advice or commands are grounds for an immediate ban. Bots and clones
Bots are not allowed in
#Linux. We do not need any
automated responses for netsplits, !commands (!seen, !ping, !list,
!help), or trivia. Also, since we don't allow bots to answer those
commands, DO NOT issue them in the channel -- you will be
banned.
Clones are not allowed in
#Linux. Each person only needs
one connection to DALnet. You don't need one connection for every
computer you use. Likewise, you only need to have one nickname in
#Linux.
DALnet does not allow clones on the network and we do not allow
them in the channel. One person, one nickname. Off-topic chatting
The topic of the channel will be
Linux and
open-source
software discussion. Specifically, the topic may vary from "favorite
distribution" to "writing a bash script" to "loading drivers."
Off-topic chat and discussion is allowed in
#Linux. However, if someone
would like to discuss something on-topic and the off-topic banter is
impeding that, the off-topic discussion shall halt. Questionable topics
will be moderated; vulgar, abusive, sexual, religious, political topics
must be kept to a minimum and may be halted at any given time,
especially if the discussion becomes innappropriate. Unsupported
Hacking, cracking, serials, warez, DoS, DDoS, BNC, shells, pirated
software or other infringing activities will not be supported and will
not be allowed to be discussed on
#Linux. We will not help you
circumvent your company's proxy or bypass blocked ports, so don't ask.
We don't support FreeBSD, Windows, or Solaris, so join the appropriate
channels for those. IRCd and eggdrops are also not Linux-related topics, so please
don't ask for help with them.