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Guidelines and Netiquette

Unlike ICE chat, this chat does have operators who will, when present, keep things orderly. Go ahead and chat freely, but just remember that manners count. These are some important things you should know:

Don't scroll. Scrolling is when a person types line after line of garbage, or makes extremely long lines of text which wrap around and take up several lines. Either way, the text scrolls up, making it hard for people to read. For such an offense, an op may kick or gag without warning. (There are more borderline cases, with long lines that don't wrap around, but are still much longer than they need to be. Lines like "Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" are like that, and can be considered scrolling also.)
Please watch the language. Most people are good about this, but it's important. Pretty much anything PG-rated is fine, but true vulgarity is another matter.
Don't shout constantly. Shouting is when a user types in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. IT'S VERY ANNOYING. PEOPLE GET SICK OF IT FAST. It's okay to emphasize a single word now and then that way, but just don't shout all the time.
No stat questions, please. This means things like "How old are you?", "What sex?", "Where do you live?", etc. To a certain extent a question put to someone you know, or done via private message, is all right, but don't ask general "Age/sex everyone?" questions.
Don't poll. Polling is a question like "If you like dogs press 1"--anything that asks a question of everyone in the room and demands a specific response. Polling is annoying beyond belief. One of the reasons stat questions are so despised is that they are a form of polling.
Never, EVER impersonate. It shouldn't take a genius to figure out what Impersonation is. It's logging in under the name of, or similar to, someone else you've seen in chat, such as an Op or a well known member of the community. Doing so will get you kicked. Quite possibly for good. Don't say you haven't been warned. This rule is taken extremely seriously.
Asking for links. There's no rule against it and we welcome you into chat. I'm just leaving a shortcut to my links page to save you time if someone in chat mentions one that I have. It should open in a new window.

Commands and how to use them

Most of the commands are similar to the ones used in ICE and IRC, but here's the list.

Regular commands

.quit Leaves the chat. This command isn't necessary to log out.

.join <room> Joins a room. Unlike in ICE, you cannot create your own rooms--you must join an existing room.

.me <action> Emote. .me looks around will become Bob looks around. Please do not over use this in the main room. Save it for Creatures RPG

.msg <name(s)> <message> Send private message; separate names with commas, but no spaces, for multiple messages at once. eg. .msg Joe Hi Joe! will be sent to Joe. Joe will see [From Bob] Hi Joe! and you'll see [To Joe] Hi Joe!

.say <any action> Says whatever you type next without looking for a command. e.g. .say /thwaps Fred will not give the usual error message, but will show in chat as Yourname: /thwaps Fred . This feature is useful when teaching someone the commands

.who [room] See the user list of a room (the current room is the default).

.whois <name> Get information about a user.

.whereis <name> Find a user.

.users See the complete user list.

.rooms See a list of rooms.

.roominfo [room] Get information about a room.

.ignore <name>
.unignore <name> Ignore/unignore a user. (This is based on IP address, so you can ignore someone for good.)

.ignorelist See a list of users you are ignoring.

.isignoring <name> Find out if someone is ignoring you.

.banlist See a list of banned and kicked addresses.

.isgagged [name] Find out if you or someone else are gagged.

.keepoutlist See a list of people who are not allowed in the room.

.iplookup <IP> Shows a list of users with a given IP address.

.ignorebyip <IP> Ignores someone with a given IP address.

SysOp/TempOp commands

.time <time> Time for a given command to function, given in milliseconds (ms), seconds (s), minutes (m) hours (h), days (d) and weeks (w). For example, reducing a kick time to allow someone to correct the name after a sponateous disconnect with .time 1ms .kick <name>

.kick <name> Kick a user out of chat temporarily. (TempOps can only kick users in their own room.)
If kicking a stuck name (someone's internet connection dropped and their name is still in chat when they return), it's better to use .time 1s .kick <name> as the default time is 20 minutes.

.keepout <name>
.unkeepout <name>
.keepoutbyip <IP> Keep a user out of the room--they are still free to enter other rooms. .unkeepout readmits the user. (TempOps can only keep users out of their own room, temporarily.)

.vote <y/n> <name> To allow a waitlisted user to enter, type .vote y <name> . However there may be people that are for one reason or another kept out of chat (see rules). In this case, you would type .vote n <name> eg .vote n LightOmni

Regular commands
.quit	Leaves the chat. This command isn't necessary to log out.
.join <room>	Joins a room. Unlike in ICE, you cannot create your own rooms--you must join an existing room.
.me <action>	Emote. .me looks around will become Bob looks around. Please do not over use this in the main room. Save it for Creatures RPG
.msg <name(s)> <message>	Send private message; separate names with commas, but no spaces, for multiple messages at once. eg. .msg Joe Hi Joe! will be sent to Joe. Joe will see [From Bob] Hi Joe! and you'll see [To Joe] Hi Joe!
.say <any action>	Says whatever you type next without looking for a command. e.g. .say /thwaps Fred will not give the usual error message, but will show in chat as Yourname: /thwaps Fred . This feature is useful when teaching someone the commands
.who [room]	See the user list of a room (the current room is the default).
.whois <name>	Get information about a user.
.whereis <name>	Find a user.
.users	See the complete user list.
.rooms	See a list of rooms.
.roominfo [room]	Get information about a room.
.ignore <name> .unignore <name>	Ignore/unignore a user. (This is based on IP address, so you can ignore someone for good.)
.ignorelist	See a list of users you are ignoring.
.isignoring <name>	Find out if someone is ignoring you.
.banlist	See a list of banned and kicked addresses.
.isgagged [name]	Find out if you or someone else are gagged.
.keepoutlist	See a list of people who are not allowed in the room.
.iplookup <IP>	Shows a list of users with a given IP address.
.ignorebyip <IP>	Ignores someone with a given IP address.
SysOp/TempOp commands
.time <time>	Time for a given command to function, given in milliseconds (ms), seconds (s), minutes (m) hours (h), days (d) and weeks (w). For example, reducing a kick time to allow someone to correct the name after a sponateous disconnect with .time 1ms .kick <name>
.kick <name>	Kick a user out of chat temporarily. (TempOps can only kick users in their own room.) If kicking a stuck name (someone's internet connection dropped and their name is still in chat when they return), it's better to use .time 1s .kick <name> as the default time is 20 minutes.
.keepout <name> .unkeepout <name> .keepoutbyip <IP>	Keep a user out of the room--they are still free to enter other rooms. .unkeepout readmits the user. (TempOps can only keep users out of their own room, temporarily.)
.vote <y/n> <name>	To allow a waitlisted user to enter, type .vote y <name> . However there may be people that are for one reason or another kept out of chat (see rules). In this case, you would type .vote n <name> eg .vote n LightOmni