How to Autokick an IRC User With Chanserv

The Chanserv service available on most Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks allows you to easily and efficiently own and manage an IRC channel. Unwanted users can be restricted from your channel by setting Chanserv's autokick (akick) feature.

Instructions

1. Become a registered channel owner or have level 100 ("SOP") access in the channel where you wish to set an akick. Identify yourself to Nickserv with your password.

2. Determine the username and host mask of the user you want to akick. Use the IRC /whois command to see the user's current username and host mask, which uses the same format as an email address.

3. Go through the IRC server using the standard /msg command with the syntax, /msg Chanserv AKICK #channel ADD the user's actual username and host mask in email address format.

4. Replace "#channel" with the name of the channel. Replace the user's actual username and host mask. Replace "reason" with the reason for which you are akicking the user.

5. Use additional akick commands such as LIST, VIEW, COUNT, or ENFORCE to review and alter the akick list, or force Chanserv to akick a user who's in the channel when the it's set.

6. Check the akick list periodically and remove akicks that are no longer needed. You can keep only 100 akicks in the list at a time. Remove an akick by using the akick command DEL to delete an akick from the list.

Tips & Warnings

• When a user on a channel's akick list tries to join the channel, Chanserv bans the user from the channel, and then kick them out of the channel.