Getting Started

Start Chating 

Go to the EB Chat Page. If you are logged into EB, you will automatically be assigned your EB user id.

Chatting

General

Sending messages 

After selecting a room to enter, you can type a message in the input field near the bottom of the screen to chat and hit "enter" on keyboard or the button "send" to send the message out. Your message appears on the chat screen followed your nickname. Press ctrl+"enter" or cliking "Newline" button to start a new line.

Idle status /typing status 

After a duration of time when a user remain silence both in public and in private window if any, his/her status will be automatically changed to "idle". The time length is defined by administrator. When idle user begin talks, the idle status disappear automatically. When user begins to talk , whether in public or in private window, the speaker and other people in the same chatroom will see a "typing" status after his or her name, when speaker clicks "send" button, the "typing" status disappear automatically.

Interval between two utterances 

Please wait a while before sending another message. This pause is for preventing flooding on screen. This value is defined by administrator and the default value is one second.

IRC Commands

IRC commands must be at the beginning of a sentence to be effective. They are used to control the interface.

Getting Help

/help 

Shows a list of IRC commands.

/? 

Same as /help.

User Commands

Announcing availability

/away 

Sets user as away. Typing this command again sets user as "here".

/here 

Sets user as here. This reverses the "away" and "busy" states.

/busy 

Sets user as busy. Typing this command again sets user as "here".

Managing messages

/back <number> 

Shows the last <number> of entries of the rooms chat.

/backtime <minutes> 

Shows the last <minutes> of the rooms chat.

/clear 

Clears the chat screen. This only affects your screen, not the screen of other users.

/me <action> 

Issues an IRC-like "action" to the chat.

/msg <user> <message> 

Initiates a PM with <user> and fills PM box with optional <message>.

/query <user> 

Initiates a PM with <user>

Accessing rooms

/join <room> 

Switches the user to <room>. For example: "/join The Lounge"

/part 

Logout of the chat.

/quit 

Logout of the chat.

/logout 

Logout of the chat.

Managing users

/ignore <user> 

Ignores PMs from <user>.

/invite <user> 

Invites <user> to the room that you are currently in.

/names 

Shows a list of all user names in all public rooms

/showignores 

Shows a list of users ignored by you and which other users are ignoring you.

/sos <message> 

Alerts moderator in current room or all moderators. <message> is optional.

/unignore <user> <message> 

Removes your ignore of <user> : with optional <message> to user.

/who <user> 

Profile page popup for <user>. If you are <user> login information is added.

/whois <user> 

Profile page popup for <user> where <user> must be logged in to the chat.

/whowas <user> 

Profile page popup for any registered <user>.

Other

/motd 

Displays the Message of the Day.

/topic 

Shows the topic or welcome message for the room you are in, if any.

/version 

Shows which version of the chat you are using.

/welcome 

Same as /topic.

Moderator Commands

General

/kick <user>

/boot <user>

/ban <user>

/banip <user>

/gagX <user>

/ungag <user>

/broadcast <message>

/alert <user> <message>

/roomalert <message>

/chatalert <message>

/showbans

/unban <user>

/reban <user>

/reban @

/rooms

/who <user>

/whois <user>

/names

/kickout <user>

/kickout @

/kickroom

/move <user>

/status

/motd

/motd @

/motd [new message]

Help

/helpall 

show all the help, not just the moderator help

/?all 

same as /helpall

Bots

/addbot <botname> 

Adds a new bot

/startbot <botname> 

Starts a bot

/killbot <botname> 

Kills a bot

/showbots 

Shows all bots

/teach <botname> "phrase" => "response" 

Adds a bot response.

/unteach <botname> "phrase" => "response" 

Removes a bot response.