Some questions I've been having about IRC (noob questions)
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[deleted] · 2014-03-12 03:40

I've known about irc for a while but for the last month or so I've
been spending more and more time on it, but there are still some
things I don't get/concern me.

Here's a [screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/dznJPGb.png) for reference

First off, when I do a /whois for my name, it spews back my ip address
and some other things. When I do a /whois on anyone else, it doesn't
show any IP address or anything. Is there a setting or something to
change. I notice it says the other guy has a "secure connection."

I'm using Hexchat in case you couldn't tell and I was wondering if
there was a guide or something that explained what all the colors mean
next to the users' names and what color the actual text is? I know
green is OP and blue is user and that's about it. Not really a good
screenshot for this question, but in other rooms I'll see a guy with
an orange circle next to him and people with other colors.

Last question that's on my mind right now. Depending what network I'm
on, I may or may not have a blue circle next to my username in the
lower left corner (see orangebox in screenshot). Why is this?


Thanks in advance. I've tried googling all of these

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Techzen · 2014-03-12 04:01

The green dots are next to the people who have full ops. The blue are
people who have "voice". All this means is those people with voice can
still chat if the room is muted. Other colors you might see might be
"half ops"... Ops that can't kick another op. Full ops can kick
another op. Another color, if at the top of the list above green
dotted names might be "admin". I don't use hexchat so not sure what
colors admin and half ops would be. But Admin would always be at the
top of the list, followed by full ops, then half ops and finally those
with voice. Hope this helps.

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kaysb · 2014-03-12 06:21

There is several different versions of irc-servers out there, and they
all behave somewhat different. Snoopnet is using InspIRCd. One of the
features used on Snoopnet is hiding client ips. This feature will hide
your real ip for other users (except for the IRC-admins that can view,
or convert your hidden-ip back to the real one).  If you dont want the
server to hide -your- ip, you can remove the -x flag on your user;

    /mode nickname -x

But, you can not do this with other users.

To see the other flags you can change, run

    /quote HELP mode
    /quote HELP umodes
    /quote HELP chmodes

The line "is using a secure connection" indicates that the user uses
SSL/TLS to connect to the IRC-server (is using a encrypted
connection).

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kellyzdude · 2014-03-12 08:43

The easiest way to see what you look like to other people is to clone
yourself - load up a second tab, connect to the same network, and have
each connection /whois themselves and each other.

In most cases the only users that see "is connecting from" line with
the IP address are yourself and network staff. Your hostname may or
may not be masked (umode +x may be available if other users have it),
this is shown in the [nick] (ident@host): realname line, which
everyone sees.