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So: Knightmare Chat is back on, Sundays 8:00pm!

(And any time you want to use the room).

I'm sorry for my almost consistent absence recently. Anyone who would like to come back, please do, of course. Ops who want their op status back are invited to re-register their nicks so I can give them their status (we need the ops in case I go AWOL once again).

See you there, I hopes!

Just so you know... I've been absent from Chat a bit lately, but a few people have still been chatting there. Anyway, some odd stuff happened with it, and with Forester's help, I've reclaimed ownership.

Let's try and get it active again. I'll be around in Chat this Saturday (6th Sept) and Sunday (7th Sept), and I'd encourage people to come long and get chatting, like we always used to.

Billy, Darren and Kieran, you will need to re-register your nicks for your op status back.

I'm sure the ops will be around

For whatever reasons, your 3 appointed ops have, between them, had only 1 visit during an active weekend chat since mid-March; so I wouldn't bet on that. It perhaps reinforces the opinion that having as many chatters as possible being responsible and considerate is more worthwhile than giving powers and status to people who are too unenthused or busy to even be present. (Or to put it another way, see 17/02/08 chat log, 22:20:37.)

On the plus side, former #knightmare manager Darren now has greatly improved internet access, so there's a chance that he will become a chatroom regular again.

If the server is giving you trouble try the alternative, irc.knightmare.org.uk port 6667.

I won't be here this weekend, but I'm sure the ops will be around, not that there are any rules that need enforcing! Please go there for fun and frolics!

• After extensive discussion in the room and with individual Chatters, I've decided the following: there will only be a handful of ops (+o / @). Very few. All the bots are voices (+v / +). Everyone else is a 'normal' user or a 'prole'. The main call was for equality in the room. Ops are only present to enforce anything, but I doubt that will happen. Seriously.

• The only exceptions to this are myself and Forester. I own the chat room and I am a 'Founder' (~). Forester owns the network which holds IKM and KM Chat. He is called an IRCop, and if he comes into the room he is a SOP (&) and protected.

That's all. The current ops are myself, Forester and Kieran [EDIT: ...and Billy. And Billy.]; the bots/voices are Cypher, Caei and Jobe. I'm hoping to avoid the problem of too many or too few users with 'status' as that always causes problems within a Room. We're having lots of fun in #Knightmare so let's keep it that way!

One thing I forgot to mention is that people might be better off registering their nicknames. I'm still trying to decide about ops/hops, but I want to vop all the registered users and leave the bots as proles. That might be a better idea!

Maybe I could Op the bots, and make everyone else who registers a Voice. Or Voice the bots, and leave everyone else as a prole.

But I do think we need more than one regular Op in the Room, just in case we get trolls. It's been known to happen.

That's how I've always understood it, anyway...

I'll definitely be making Billy a SOP if/when he re-registers. I'll hang onto "Founder" status (it's given to whoever registers the room), but people like Forester, Billy, K and so on (ex-OPs / founders) I'd hope to have stand by as OPs.

#Knightmare ended up not even being registered.

Not being as technically-minded as I could be, I'd like to ask: what is the significance of that? When I visited the chatroom last weekend, it seemed as accessible as ever.

Knightmare Chat has been around almost as long as Knightmare.com, and holds great memories for many KMers, so I hope that your attempt to revive it is as successful as you want it to be. Will you be co-ordinating your efforts with Billy, who (according to his Lexicon entry) is ranked as the chatroom's co-owner and 'Founder'?

I suggest we reclaim KM Chat. Forester (who owns the server) very kindly gave me an Op status, so I could register the channel.

The official times for Knightmare Chat are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 7:00 pm onwards. Sunday is generally the day when it's supposed to be its busiest.

However, the chat room is always open and I'm going to try and be as available as I can. IKM has a pretty neat little box showing who's currently in the chat room if you want to drop in.

The idea behind this is that, like a lot of IRC channels, #Knightmare should be a place for members of the community to chat whenever they want to, but with scheduled times during which it's pretty much guaranteed to get a chat going. If you want to, you can have a client (or a tab, if you're using Mozilla or new IE) open and idle in #Knightmare.

The bots in residence are Caei and Cypher. Caei has a pseudo-AI programmed into her and will recall what you tell her. Cypher logs everything that is said in Chat, even if it's not in one of the logs on IKM.

For the technically-minded of us, point your IRC client at irc.knightmare.org.uk port 6667. Then /join #knightmare.

If you have no experience of IRC but want to chat, there are two web-based chat clients still available here.

If I can think of anything else, I'll reply to this thread or edit this post.