Useful ChanServ Commands

Flying Monkey uses ChanServ. This is a tool to let you register your new channel once you’ve created it and set a number of options. You can feed it commands via your chosen IRC Client. The following commands are a useful reference to get you started.

/msg chanserv register [channel]
This channel registers the channel to your nickname.

/msg chanserv set persist [channel] on
This sets the channel as persistent, which means the channel will remain in the channel list even after everyone leaves. Most people will want to set this on.

/msg chanserv topic [channel] [topic]
Sets the channel’s topic.

/msg chanserv set keeptopic [channel] on
This sets the channel topic as persistent, which means the topic will remain even after everyone leaves. Most people will want to set this on.

/msg chanserv op [channel] [nickname]
Gives the specified nickname operator status on the channel, allowing them to do some channel management such as kick and ban users.

/MODE [channel] +F 3:5
Enables nick flood protection, preventing a person from spamming the channel with constant nickname changes.

/MODE [channel] +f kick:6:2
Enables message flood protection, protecting a channel from multiple messages sent too quickly.

There are plenty of other ChanServ commands available, these are just the very basics to get you started. If you want to explore more, you can type /msg chanserv help to get information on other commands.