Bots and Scripts
Bigger more organized channels inevitably have a Bot(Robot) or multiple
Bots. Bots are essentially suped up scripts that attempt to maintain ops on
a channel by their continuous presensce on channel. Additionally Bots
provide a number of channel mainten ance tasks such as opping known members
of the channel (either automatically or through password requests),
providing notes, and other information. Bots however are primarlly used for
keeping ops on channel and depending on the type of Bot, defending aga inst
IRC hackers. Bots come in many varieties and types but the best of them do
a good job of deoping spliters(thats you silly..you are opped on a split
and when you rejoin the bot will deop you). Not only will Bots deop
you..many of the human ops have scripts (such as LIce) that depending on
the settings employed will deop you as well. Now with the prevalance of
powerful scripts on IRC a recent phenomona is the occurse of the desynch.
This is a nasty event that takes place when you rejoin from a spli t and
your script deops the existing ops and the existing ops deop you at the
same time. What this does is confuse the shit out of the servers and cause
them to desynchronize from one another. This is to be avoided at all costs.
When this happens you w ill effectively become desynched from a large
portion of the net and most the channel, (depending on what server you rode
in on). What's worse is that you will think you have ops( which you will
for that server) but in reality you won't and you will be w asting your
time. So how with the prevalence of super Bots and Human ops with scripts
do you take the channel? Using MCB of course!
Multi-Collide-Bot(MCB)
Multi-Collide-Bot (MCB) is a powerful tool and your best friend. MCB is an
even lovelier program that creates a clone of a nick you want to kill
(almsot always an op on the channel you are tr ying to hack) on a server
that has split(yes the one Link Looker informed you of). Basically you feed
MCB the name or names of the nick you want to kill and tell it what split
server to establish those clones and upon rejoin.BAM/SMACK/KIILL!! Yes
thats r ight, the target is thrown out of the channel(losing ops) and must
re-establish a connection with a server to get back onto IRC and into the
channel. So yes, you have figured it out. If you kill all of the ops on a
channel and you ride in on a split you will be the only op in the channel.
Let me assure you there is nothing like seeing the nick kill messages of
the ops you have targeted as you ride in on the split.