Paradise has a few rules for server administrators and operators.
Final draft.
Server admin policies:
* The server must have their bots/abuse policies clearly stated in the motd and
(accurate) contact information must be stated in the (ADMIN) A:lines.
* That said, server admins are allowed to do what ever they want with their MOTD.
* Server admins are permitted to use what ever name they want, but you are
strongly encouraged to use *.Paradise.Net. Server names must be cleared with
us before link.
* The server administration must take measures against the use of things such as tor and proxies with the help of BOPM. BOPM is required. We will supply you with a config file to use.
* The server must be on a legitimate shell. Hacked servers are completely
unallowed.
* Server administrators are responcible for the actions of the operators on
their server. If abuse comes from a certain server repeatably, you may earn
yourself a noop or a delink.
* Server administrators may add as many operators as they want (within reason
of course), but note, as I said before, if you give a jackass oper and fucks
up shit, it will be you who will be in shit.
* Dont give people operator on your server just because you think they are kool - do it out of necessity.
Kline/killing local users:
* I tried to fashion our policy similar to EFnets. Efnet policy is basically
that all local things are okay...for example..you kill or kline a local user
for what ever reason, even abusish, and it dosent matter.
* On one hand, I would like to totally use that policy. I cant tell someone who
owns and pays for a server that they cant decide who can go on THEIR server
can I? Yet on the other side of the token, I cant have operators repetably
banning people just because they dont like them. So to reach a comermise...
* So basically, just use your good judgement. If you are stupid, dont expect to
stay around long :)
Abuse policy:
* Abuse is not tolerated. Period.
* Operators are to stay out of channel matters.
* KILL is not a toy.
* Being a operator/admin does not make you cool. Nor does it extend your v- pen0r.
* Operators are not to use gline/akill/kline/dline/resv lightly. You may not
just ban someone because they told you that U R GAY, LOL.
services you will loose your access.
* The only time when it is really appropriate to use akill/kline/etc is when a
user is A.) tor client B.) proxy client C.) Cloning or D.) spam.
* As I stated above, server admins are responcible for their operators.
Glines:
* Glines are to be disabled on your server. Glines are disabled on all other
servers, including the hubs.
Attitude:
* This is not unreal and is not a typical network. Being a operator does not
make you some demigod. There are no operator levles here. Get over it.
Misc:
* Operators must keep network matters out of -Os channels. There is way too
much discussion of private network matters in public.
* Network decisions are reached via a consensus between all of the server administrators. There are no rash decisions.
Settings:
* You must compile your server with a NICKLEN (nick legenth limit) of 16.
during ./configure append with-nicklen=16
* You must compile your server with a TOPICLEN ot 512. append
--with-topiclen=512 to ./configure. Then edit include/setup.h and find
topiclen and change it to 512.
* Use max_bans of 256 and max_channels 50.
* You are strongly encouraged to compile your server with with-openssl and
listen on 6697 for SSL client connections.