This is a brief overview of the commands and process in which you would obtain and maintain an account with our account services bot, H. All parameters required for the commands do not include the left or right brackets.

User accounts on the website will be purged weekly on the this criteria

1.) You haven't confirmed your account within a week, and are not flagged as a network staff member or website contributor
2.) You haven't accessed the site using your account within five weeks.

This is done roughly to mirror the registration lapse system we currently use with X3.

Have a funny you'd like to share with complete strangers? We have a 'quote of the moment' feature now which will allow you to embarass someone or show off your moment to the whole world. All you have to do is have an active account with our website. Just click on "Create Content" and then "Quotes" to have your submission added to our database. Don't forget to fill out the form, silly.

Also, the screencasts will start getting worked on this weekend. We'll start with installing mIRC and using the java chat to get onto WhatNET. Expect those soon.

So we here on the WhatNET IRC Network want to announce a few additions which you may or may not have noticed on the network. One is a trivia channel, #walledcitytrivia, which is run by CountZero. It's a good time and you can learn a lot of neat stuff.

The other is the return of Acro, a game where you make up an acronym for a group of letters that the bot assigns and the other players get to vote on them. The channel for that is, you guessed it, #acro.

We're ushering in a new era here on WhatNET and we're looking for users who want to be involved in making the network a better place. If you're interested in being involved, leave a comment here and/or join #PR and say hello to either PinkFloyd or myself. There's a lot to be done and it would be great to have you on board.

The forums were out for an extended period of time due to memory consumption in one of our database tables. We're putting restrictions in to prevent this from happening again, but they've automagically fixed themselves for the time being. Woo.

UPDATE: This has been accelerated to 3/4/09, from 8pm-10pm currently. Check with us on #whatnet for more information, which chances are we don't even have. :)

WhatNET will be having its 7th Anniversary on March 4th, 2009. Right now activities are in the works, but the only confirmed activity is yours truly will be having a radio fest at 12:30am EST on March 6th. If you'd like to request a song or something silly, please use the contact form to send me a message on what you'd like to hear.

90% of you are going to come to us asking if we can figure out how to get you unbanned from whatever channel you got banned in. The answer is easy: We will not..

I'm not much for angry posts, but this is my biggest pet peeve, as well as other staff members on the network. If you find you got banned from a particular channel, take it up with their ops or find out the proper resources necessary to remedy the ban.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, the acceptable use policy for WhatNET defines the maximum connection per host at 3. We are reinforcing that with our services bots, so please remember to keep your connections limited to 3 per IP address.

If you need a trusted entry for our services for whatever reason, please seek out an IRC Operator and we'll attempt to take care of your request.

EDIT: This has been changed to 4 due to issues with LANs. If you still need clarification, ask an IRC Operator online.