First and foremost: Fill out a
Helper application and become a
Helper. You'll need to be an active certified Helper for a MINIMUM of
2 weeks before you can be considered for IRCop status. (Note this is a
minimum and is
not a guarantee -- In most cases it will be months). This
ensures 2 things that we want in our staff: a willingness to help others,
and a good basic knowledge of our services, policies, and IRC in general.
You must be actively helping users visiting the
network, if they need it. That means spending time in #JetIRC
and any other channels, such as #Help and helping those who look lost
or outright ask for it, to the best of your ability. To do this
better, you should get to know our IRCd and Services.
Visit this website's Help
section for more info about the Services.
Read (and follow) the
RULES.
Your chances greatly improve if you are actively bringing
new users to the network.
Understand that you will be expected to follow certain
Network guidelines and policies. We believe IRC should be fun, but
that means that Opers must follow a code of conduct to keep it fun for
everyone, users and Opers alike. Violations of the policies and
rules will result in a loss of Opers, and possible akill (if severe
enough).
All Opers start as Local IRCops, known as CiTs.
Once you have been an IRCop for at least 2 weeks, you can begin to train
for, and take, the SOP (Services OP) test. This gives you a few more
privileges with Services. Any IRCop may go for the SOP certification,
and any SOP may petition to become an SA (Services Admin, the most powerful
non-Network Admin status we have). However, SA is not given out often
or freely, and even then only to the most deserving of SOPs. Not even
all Server Admins get these privileges. New Server Admins (Owners)
must go through this same process, same as anyone else.
DO NOT harass existing Admins for O:Lines or Opers.
This will most certainly ensure that you never get Opers.
You must have been an active user of this
network for at minimum 14 days before you will receive Oper
status, even if you qualify in all other areas. Make that time
count
by inviting people over, becoming a Helper, and welcoming and helping new
users. This will go a long way to helping you get approved.
Fill out a
Helper application
and become a Helper. Once you have been accepted as Helper, you can
discretely let a Network Admin know that you are looking to eventually
become an IRCop, and then drop it. When you pass your Helper
test, you may wish to mention it again, once. Do not constantly
harass the Admins on this topic, however.
