SHellium:Vouching

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Contents 1 Vouch/Voting for new users 1.1 How to contribute? 1.2 New members: How to get vouches/votes ? 2 Vouch/Voting for shellium members 2.1 Current members: How to vouch for new users

Vouch/Voting for new users

SHellium uses a sponsorship/voucher program for inducting new members into our service and community. While it does add time between applying for and receiving activation for a shell account, it helps keep our community strong and our service running.

How to contribute?

New members: How to get vouches/votes ?

Get four current SHellium members to vouch (approve an account) for you if you haven't already been contributing to the SHellium community by writing for the wiki, sharing useful programs or scripts you've written, etc. Join #shellium at chat.freenode.net to begin communicating with the members, administrator and operators. Get to know some people! :) It is not neccessary that your IRC nickname on freenode is the same name that you have choosen when registering for a shell account on the site. If you've never used IRC (Internet Relay Chat) before, or you don't currently have an IRC client installed, you can use a JavaScript client within your web browser at webchat.freenode.net. If you are using Firefox with the NoScript add-on, you will need to enable scripts for freenode.net.

• Note: It is considered disrespectful to immediately begin chasing everyone in the channel around for vouches. Remember to introduce yourself so everyone knows you're a new member looking for vouches.

Several people appear every day hunting for vouches and as responsible vouchers, we can't approve you all at once. If you give us something to remember you by, and you aren't "annoying," you probably won't have a problem getting vouches.

This step should take a couple of days depending on how much current members (vouchers) get to know you. More precisely, you need four vouches unless you contribute. Contributions can be anything from writing or editing articles on this wiki to donating, but can also be anything like drawing graphics for SHellium, helping/being active on irc, sharing programs you wrote that we may like. Just anything you feel that is needed here.

Vouch/Voting for shellium members

Current members: How to vouch for new users

After being a member for over a week (and passing your trial), you will be allowed to vouch for new users. Vouching new users keeps the community alive, and is a way to give back to the community.

It's quite easy to vouch for another member by using the shellium bot. The bot idles in #shellium under the nick bot|shellium. In order to use the bot you must first make yourself known to it. Please follow the instructions on authorization on the bot's page. You can then use the addvouch command to quickly vouch for a prospective member.

Before you vouch for someone, it is required to put him/her through a test to prove they are aware of all the rules. Make sure that they don't behave like a script kiddie or someone who might want to hurt the SHellium community and server. Also, don't vouch for someone as soon as you see him/her; try to make sure that he/she is going to stick around. Avoid vouching until at least the second time you've seen someone, and after you get to know them well.

You can only vouch for one user per day. You cannot save up "vouch points," so even if you wait one week without vouching, you can't vouch 7 people at the same time. You also can't vouch for the same user twice. Different SHellium members have to vouch will get their chance to vouch for that user. Your shell username is logged when you vouch for someone. If the person you vouch for is banned or locked out because they've broken the rules, then your account may be locked/banned, so please vouch wisely.

Thanks for contributing and helping SHellium grow!

Tip: to ease tracking of contributions (or estimate the usefulness of someone), try using the !thankyou <nick> and !respectof <nick> commands as it's much easier to track using that.