Forum:Establishing Requests for IRC op/chatmod rights

Hey,

I know this has been thrown around on IRC before and I am fully aware I've voiced numerous concerns about this idea but seeing as a lot of the time there are no ops in the channel that are active (I may look like I'm there 24/7 but I use a bouncer, not to mention I haven't been that active lately due to...other stuff...), I figured now would be the best time to formally put this forward and we may as well do it for chatmod while we're at it.

The title of this thread states my proposal of establishing two separate pages to request IRC chanop at chat moderator rights. I'd like to note from the offset that I was hesitant to bring this up based on my concerns from the past but I'm willing to give this a go based on the following grounds:
 * The vetting process is done just like an RfA - with a community vote on whether the candidate should get the flags or not. I remember the initial ideas being that it should be done more like how rollback is given out - my main issue with this is that IRC op flags are an integral part of what an administrator can do on IRC as well as the possibility of candidates easily being given the rights solely on personal ties without anyone else really getting a say; an RfA-style vote is the best way to go about this. I'm not saying that the causes of my concerns will come to light but I'm definitely not ruling it out either.
 * The IRC ops get a slightly watered down version of the flags in order to avoid undermining the purpose of administrators on IRC. I recommend giving them only +Aor (note that admins have +AOiortv) which will allow them to use /cs quiet and to use the required op commands while not allowing the users to receive autovoice/op or to set channel topics, so that we can designate who's an admin and who isn't as well as the fact that the topic can easily be changed abusively and therefore should be left to admins. Chatmods are unable to promote new chatmods (something that admins can do), so no issues there.
 * Some sort of control over how many new ops/chatmods we'll get. There's no need for everybody to have these rights and apparently newer users often dislike seeing 99% of the channel with operator status.

I do still have numerous concerns over how this will all go down in the long-term and while I am open to discussing any possible compromises to what I said above, I feel that what I've listed is vital towards this whole thing gaining any support from me at all. My concerns are more to do with IRC than anything as Chat is much easier to manage and I am therefore more open to the idea with Chat.

Note that this thread isn't about who should get any rights at all, this is discussing the idea. If we do decide to go down this road then we'll decide once the nominations/requests pages are set up.

So what does everyone think? 22:29, January 14, 2013 (UTC)