A mean trick to play on
newbies on
IRC. When someone new to the
channel says something dumb,
squelch the taunts of others by saying something to the affect of:
<anotherone> Guys, leave him alone, he's still got the newbie flag set.
When the newbie gets mad at being called a newbie (
and they will!), they will ask how to disable the
so-called "newbie flag." Tell them to type, very carefully,
/quit newbie-status. If they do, they will quit IRC.
B1FF has quit #1337- newbie-status