1. You are totally giving and expect nothing. Your only goal is to help others and
    make IRC a better experience for them. this includes both users, servers, and
    even other Operators. Your goal is to serve. To give back from IRC and the
    Internet - something very few people do on a grand scale.

2. You realize your IRC life as you know it as a normal user will cease to exist.
    Once you become and Operator, even if you are not online with your O line
    active, users still know you as an Operator and will ask you for assistance.
    You will almost never be able to just sit in a channel or anywhere else and
    just chat away with your friends. You will sacrifice this IRC life of being a user
    for another one of being an Operator. If you use ICQ and are an Operator,
    God help you.... Even when you are not on IRC, users will find you via that
    and ask questions. You will be on mailing lists, have meetings, deal with
    network/server politics that are the very nature of IRC, user problems,
    network/server/Internet connection problems, etc etc. Your time will become
    very limited - as will the amount of friends that will still talk to you because
    you are always so busy. Most of the people you spend time with on IRC,
    will be users you don't know, and other IRC St on IRC, will be users you
    don't know, and other IRC Staff, like Administrators, Operators, Services
    people, etc etc etc.......

3. This may relate back to reason #1, but here it is anyhow... You want to make
    a difference. You have the technical skills, the people skills, the desire to
    give without exception or compensation for your time, nowledge, money, and
    whatever other resources you have and use to do your job as an IRC Operator.
    You are willing to be the moderator and deal with all of the hassles, problems,
    and general day to day same old same old of IRC. This includes the typical
    questions that you get every day on IRC as an Operator. Questions like, "How
    do I become an IRC Operator?" and many, many more. You will get a "following"
    of certain users that follow you around online. these fans are nice, and you
    need to be nice to them, but they can and do get in the way some times.
    Nevertheless, don't just ignore them.

4. You enjoy getting mail bombed, nuked, flooded, not wanted in channels and
    kicked/banned from them, yelled at, being told you and all IRC Operators are
    evil pigs from Hell and that you are all corrupt little bastards, and whole lot more.
    You'll even get people trying to imitate you by trying to hack your O line, take
    your nick, tell others that they "know you well and not to mess with them cause
    they'll get their Oper buddy after them", etc etc etc. Friends from IRC that knew
    you before you were aou before you were an Operator will try to take advantage
    of that friendship.

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