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-	<~~table>~~	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What should I know before reading this FAQ?</h4>
-	~~<tr>~~	+	<div class="faqentrya">The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.</div>
-	~~<td><toggledisplay showtext~~="What should I know before reading this FAQ?">	+
-	<div class="~~faq-answer~~">The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.</div>	+
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-	<tr><td><~~br></td~~></tr>	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What the heck is an IRC bot?</h4>
		+	<div class="faqentrya">This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.</div>

-	<~~tr>~~	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">How does an IRC bot?</h4>
-	~~<td><toggledisplay showtext="What the heck is an IRC bot?">~~	+	<div class="faqentrya">Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:
-	~~<div~~ class="~~faq-answer~~">This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.</div>	+
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-	~~<td><toggledisplay showtext="~~How does an IRC bot?">	+
-	<div class="~~faq-answer~~">Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:	+

	on join * /whois $0		on join * /whois $0

	What this does is tell you who the person is when they join a channel. That is how a bot works: you tell it to do particular things on the occurrence of particular events.</div>		What this does is tell you who the person is when they join a channel. That is how a bot works: you tell it to do particular things on the occurrence of particular events.</div>
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-	<tr><td><~~br></td~~></tr>	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">How is an IRC bot ran?</h4>
		+	<div class="faqentrya">Bots are normally separate processes from your normal client. However, you can be the bot if you wish by simply loading the bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy of it.</div>

-	<~~tr>~~	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What good is an IRC bot?</h4>
-	~~<td><toggledisplay showtext~~="~~How~~ is an IRC bot ~~ran~~?">	+	<div class="faqentrya">There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).</div>
-	<div class="~~faq-answer~~">~~Bots~~ are ~~normally separate processes from your normal client~~. ~~However, you can be the bot if you wish~~ by ~~simply loading~~ the ~~bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy~~ of it.</div>	+
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		+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">Does this mean IRC bots can do more than I can?</h4>
		+	<div class="faqentrya">No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.</div>

-	<tr><td><br></~~td>~~</tr>	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What are Warbots?</h4>
		+	<div class="faqentrya">There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.</div>

-	<~~tr>~~	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">Where can I get an IRC bot</h4>
-	~~<td><toggledisplay showtext="What good is an IRC bot?">~~	+	<div class="faqentrya">There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.
-	~~<div~~ class="~~faq-answer~~">There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).</div>	+
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-	~~<div class="faq-answer">No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.</div>~~	+
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-	<div class="faq-answer">There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.</div>	+
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-	<div class="~~faq-answer~~">There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.	+

	DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].</div>		DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].</div>
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-	<div class="faq-answer">This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.</div>
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-	</~~table~~>	+	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">Do I want an IRC bot?</h4>
		+	<div class="faqentrya">This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.</div>

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-	The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.	+	<div class="faq-answer">The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.</div>
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-	This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.	+	<div class="faq-answer">This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.</div>
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-	Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:	+	<div class="faq-answer">Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:

	on join * /whois $0		on join * /whois $0

-	What this does is tell you who the person is when they join a channel. That is how a bot works: you tell it to do particular things on the occurrence of particular events.	+	What this does is tell you who the person is when they join a channel. That is how a bot works: you tell it to do particular things on the occurrence of particular events.</div>
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-	Bots are normally separate processes from your normal client. However, you can be the bot if you wish by simply loading the bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy of it.	+	<div class="faq-answer">Bots are normally separate processes from your normal client. However, you can be the bot if you wish by simply loading the bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy of it.</div>
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-	There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).	+	<div class="faq-answer">There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).</div>
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-	No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.	+	<div class="faq-answer">No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.</div>
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-	There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.	+	<div class="faq-answer">There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.</div>
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-	There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.	+	<div class="faq-answer">There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.

-	DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].	+	DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].</div>
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-	This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.	+	<div class="faq-answer">This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.</div>
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The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sur…'
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Created page with '{{FAQ|'''IRC Bot'''}} <table> <tr> <td><toggledisplay showtext="What should I know before reading this FAQ?"> The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sur…'

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The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="What the heck is an IRC bot?">
This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="How does an IRC bot?">
Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:

on join * /whois $0

What this does is tell you who the person is when they join a channel. That is how a bot works: you tell it to do particular things on the occurrence of particular events.
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="How is an IRC bot ran?">
Bots are normally separate processes from your normal client. However, you can be the bot if you wish by simply loading the bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy of it.
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="What good is an IRC bot?">
There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="Does this mean IRC bots can do more than I can?">
No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="What are Warbots?">
There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="Where can I get an IRC bot?">
There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.

DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].
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<td><toggledisplay showtext="Do I want an IRC bot?">
This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.
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-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What should I know before reading this FAQ?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">What should I know before reading this FAQ?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.</div>		<div class="faqentrya">The most important thing is to know what IRC is. If you are not sure, check out the [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html IRC Prelude] or pick up your favorite guide to the Internet.</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What the heck is an IRC bot?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">What the heck is an IRC bot?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.</div>		<div class="faqentrya">This is one of the most common questions that appears on channels or newsgroups dealing with IRC. Bots, short for robots, are clients that have automated responses to certain commands (they are just a bunch of scripts). Confused? You should be. Hopefully this will be clear as we continue.</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">How does an IRC bot?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">How does an IRC bot?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:		<div class="faqentrya">Normally a bot contains scripts of "on" commands that react to particular events on IRC. A simple one that people might use in an ircII client is:

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-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">How is an IRC bot ran?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">How is an IRC bot ran?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">Bots are normally separate processes from your normal client. However, you can be the bot if you wish by simply loading the bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy of it.</div>		<div class="faqentrya">Bots are normally separate processes from your normal client. However, you can be the bot if you wish by simply loading the bot script into your chatting client rather than another copy of it.</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What good is an IRC bot?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">What good is an IRC bot?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).</div>		<div class="faqentrya">There are various opinions on what bots are good for. Most people use bots to aid in controlling a channel by managing the distribution of ops through an oplist; however, on networks such as DareNET this unneeded due to ChanServ. Bots can also be great information tools such as Helpbot (which sends out help documents like this FAQ).</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">Does this mean IRC bots can do more than I can?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">Does this mean IRC bots can do more than I can?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.</div>		<div class="faqentrya">No, bots are just users; they can only do what you have access to. So running a bot does not mean you can get ops on a channel that you don't presently have ops on.</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">What are Warbots?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">What are Warbots?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.</div>		<div class="faqentrya">There are a lot of malicious people out there that have created bots that "take over" channels. What these bots are designed to do is join a channel and try and force a netsplit to get ops or flood out all of the users on the channel. Fortunately on DareNET, timestamping prevents this from happening. Running bots that are malicious will get your site K-lined/G-lined pretty fast, which means you (and everyone else from your site) will not be allowed to connect to DareNET servers. Good rule of thumb: Don't run warlike/malicious bots.</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">Where can I get an IRC bot</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">Where can I get an IRC bot</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.		<div class="faqentrya">There are a lot of different bots out there. These bots were all written by other people. As described above, there are malicious people out there: some of them must have written bots that aren't warlike, but do have backdoors. What this means is that they (or someone else) has programmed in a loophole in the bot to let them can take over your bot, and most likely be able get access to your computer or account from this.

	DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].</div>		DareNET recommends Eggdrop, which can be found [http://www.eggheads.org here] OR Supybot, which can be found [http://www.supy.com here].</div>

-	<h4 class="faqentry expArrow">Do I want an IRC bot?</h4>	+	<h5 class="faqentry expArrow">Do I want an IRC bot?</h5>
	<div class="faqentrya">This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.</div>		<div class="faqentrya">This is not really a frequently asked question, but it should be. It seems that a lot of people want bots but have no clue what to do with them. Ask yourself what would you use a bot for. Most people use them to hold their channels open and for better stability and control of their channels. Do you have a channel that needs a bot? Don't forget that DareNET provides a channel registration service (ChanServ) to help users maintain their channels. DareNET's ChanServ is probably better because someone else does the hard work of running the service 24 hours a day and and leaves you free to chat! Keep in mind the dark side of bots. By running a bot, you are slowing down everyone, especially yourself.</div>