SoulxSociety is on IRC!

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Make sure you’ve got a registered nick before you join the channel. If you already have a client, just use this link: irc://staticfree.foonetic.net/SoulXchat

If you don’t have a client, go down to the next post and get one.

SoulxSociety’s IRC channel is intended to be an easy place to relax and be a little less restrained than the cBox and site proper. If all goes well, I may even decide to work out a separate channel for RPing—as it stands, I doubt I’ll need to. Still, we have to abide by rules. Here they are:

• First and foremost, Remember Wheaton’s Law. Don’t be a jerk.
  
• If we have to ask how old you are, you are doing it wrong. Conduct yourself maturely.
  
• If an Operator or Mod has to deal with someone, let them handle it. Unless you are a mod yourself, there is no need for you to muscle into the situation.
  
• For the love of all that is good—leave outside drama outside.
  
• Respect the Operators and Mods.
  
• Do not bring any bots into the channel. We'll have one, hopefully soon--He'll be maintained by either myself or someone I delegate him to.
  
• On that note, when the bot is online: avoid spamming it with commands to the point where it displaces conversation.
  

Trolling, spam, flaming, and constantly linking to untagged NSFW is going to get you kicked. As in, kicked off the channel.

These rules are subject to edits as the need arises—and by no means do they cover everything. SxS's administration has the final say in matters in the channel, just like they do on-site.

(And a note to everyone who I talked with about this earlier: we can work IRC with or without the bot--I just wanted to have the channel and rules done before hand, since programming him will take a while.)

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If you’re anything like me, you hardly remembered IRC up until now, and probably never touched it.

IRC is actually not hard to operate once you’re used to it, and there’s a lot more freedom in it to do and talk about things. It’s a bit like chatango or MSN, but more suited for a large group. (Plus, I’m working on a bot for us to use that will have a lot of fun functions.)

The first thing you want to do if you’re starting from scratch is download a client that supports IRC. I use Chatzilla (and recommend it for those of you that use Firefox—it’s easy to install and use), but anything from here will work just fine. The only other client I’ve used is Pidgin, which has the advantage of integrating multiple chat applications into one hub, but I found it a bit confusing. Anyway! Now that you’ve got a client installed, open it. (In ChatZilla, you can do this by going to “Tools>Chatzilla”.) You’ll see something like this:



Now, the very first thing you want to do is connect to a network—SoulXchat runs IRC off staticfree.foonetic.net. So when you’re on the startup screen, enter:
/server staticfree.foonetic.net
(You can cheat and copy/paste it.)

You should have it looking like this:



I recommend you use staticfree, because some servers don’t allow you to do the next step—registering a nick. Your nick is the screen name you’ll be using. Once you connect, punch in:
/msg NickServ register [a password] [your email]

Choose a password and your email, and don't forget to take out the brackets. Staticfree will send you a confirmation email. When you've finished registering, to change your nick, just click this button:



And a menu will pop up with the option.

Now just paste in this:

/join #SoulXchat

And you’re in the channel! There are plenty of tricks you can do in IRC, and you can pull them up by punching in /commands. If I missed anything, or if I lost you, PM me here.

EDIT: Once you've registered, most chat clients should keep your screen name saved (The button you clicked to change your nick changes to show whichever one you're using if you didn't already notice that). To sign in again, punch in:
/msg NickServ identify [your password]
And remember, take out the brackets. You'll be signed in and ready to connect to SoulXchat.

Happy chatting!