How to get kicked from #linux!

If you do any of the following, you will be kicked. This is not an exhaustive list, by any means. Provided you stick to the spirit of the channel and its rules, use your common sense, you will not provoke an operator to get auto-angry with you.

• Silly, abusive or offensive nicknames. See lame nicks.
• Use bold, underline or colour anywhere, including in a colon. See this rule.
• Join #linux while using the IRcap mIRC script. IRcap spews all sorts of horrid colour and crap into the channel. This is inline with the previous point. See this rule.
• Joining #linux with the horrible excuse for an IRC client MS Comic Chat. Do that, and you'll appear to be kickbanned for the next decade to come.
• Put auto-away rubbish into the channel. See this rule.
• Use the IRC client BitchX with certain default settings. See this rule.
• Parrot excessively. See this rule.
• /msg people after they have asked you to stop. See this rule.
• Mass ping/version/finger/anything else the channel. See this rule.
• Telnet or otherwise prod or poke someone's system without their permission. See this rule.
• Get caught hanging out in a warez, or software piracy channel. Some ops may kick you if they find you in a cracker/script kiddie channel. See this rule.
• Become excessively annoying by way of being abusive, stroppy, childish, trollish or generally idiotic. This includes making use of the mIRC ``* x slaps y with a large trout''. See this rule.
• Spam, or otherwise advertise irrespective of (commercial or noncommercial) purpose. See this rule.
• Try to run a bot, or eggdrop. See this rule.

Be sure to look at the section on our kick-ban policy.