At the heart of Toonplay is our IRC channel (chat
room) #toonplay, on the WTnet IRC network. Point your
favourite IRC client at irc.wtower.com
on port 7000 or 6667 (see your client's manual for more
information).
The channel is open 24 hours a day, every day
of the year. Some times are busier than others; as the
majority of our members live in North America, the channel
starts to become more lively from around 6pm Eastern/3pm
Pacific/11pm GMT. Feel free to drop in at any time!
If you have any problems connecting, please
email me, DavidMouse, at mousie@waxwolf.com.
- David Mouse
We're pretty laid back, but we do expect a certain level of
etiquette from our members. Follow our small set of unwritten
rules (given in handy written form below) and you'll be fine.
Unless we just don't like you.
Please!
No spam! Especially spammy scripts. If you want to share a
big block of text with people, it's much better to send it to
them privately (Most IRC clients have a "Query"
option). If you really have to share something, make
sure you warn everyone. Please don't use sounds either. If
you can't think without mindless noise, perhaps you should
put your favorite album on your CD player.
Absolutely NO warez, fileservers, porn etc. Unless
it's really good porn... No! Not even then.
Also
to avoid: Age/sex/location checks. We're roleplaying
characters, so this is pretty irrelevant. There are far
better channels for chatting up "female high school
girls from California", who invariably turn out to be
big hairy men from Arkansas anyway. As a guide, most of the
regular members are in their late teens or 20s, and come from
all corners of the world.
This
is a roleplay environment! Discussion about real life events,
computers, politics, etc take second priority to any roleplay
taking place. If a channel member feels that conversation
between others is out of place, he or she (or it or sie) can
request that the conversation be moved to private chat or a
more appropriate environment. If the request is not honoured
in a reasonable amount of time, and the channel operator is
in agreement, a private message will be sent to this effect.
If both requests are ignored, channel operators will kick the
offending parties. If users repeatedly ignore warnings, a ban
may be placed.
If a
channel operator refers you to this page, it is in order to
give you a better understanding of how the channel works.
Please do not assume that you are not welcome because people
are not talking when you join the channel, or if they seem
absorbed in their own conversations. Most of the members have
known each other some time and so may discuss things you don't
understand. Some members frequently talk about things nobody
understands (except perhaps the voices in their heads).
Please take time to read through this page to get an idea of
how the channel works before complaining.
Please don't beg for ops. When we get to know and brainwa--
trust you, you'll probably get them anyway.
Please
make every effort to type correctly. "RU" and
"are you" take about the same amount of time to
type and the second makes you look like much less of an
uneducated git. Remember, a fast typing speed is good for
future employment!
