[IRCServices] Suggestion: AKICK kick reason format change

[arcane]

I can definitely see the validity of this claim.  As much as founders
wish their chanops were perfectly behaved, this "bug" is a marvelous way
to trick many ordinary users into thinking someone else banned them.

If, however, you want usage of AKICK to remain anonymous, ChanServ could
at least have it be prefixed with "AKICK", "(AKICK)", or something
similar.  Personally I think just saying "AKICK by nickname" is
acceptable since it's not like many other ChanServ features are
anonymous anyway.

No matter what route this takes, I think it should definitely show who
placed an AKICK somewhere.

Arcane - UtoNet Service Administrator

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 22:11, Bergee wrote:
> Howdy,
> 	Recently some users on my network have taken to adding AKICKs for 
> people with the reason "KICK by SomeOtherUser" and then using AKICK 
> enforce to cause ChanServ to kick the user with the reason "KICK by 
> SomeOtherUser".  This of course looks exactly like the kick reason if 
> SomeOtherUser had used cs kick, which is slightly confusing to users, 
> especially new ones.
> 	Therefore I suggest that when ChanServ kicks a user because of an AKICK 
> it use a format something like "AKICK by RealNickname (reason here)" 
> where RealNickname is the nick of the user that added the AKICK.  I 
> realize this is somewhat of an education problem of the users, but it 
> strikes me as somewhat similar to prefixing channel entry messages with 
> the channel name (to prevent people from faking actual ChanServ 
> messages).  Granted it's probably not as serious, but still slightly 
> confusing if you're new to IRC.  :)
> 	I'm curious what other people think about this.  Anyone have any other 
> thoughts about this?
> 
> Bergee
> 
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