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Alchera wrote:I'd seriously consider timed ignores. The use of silence would seem to be a bit limited.

With ignores it is possible to exceed sendq .... so the disconnect it is matter of time.
We dont want our bots to got disconnected ....
A good idea is to change nick when flooded

AFAIK, silence is limited to 20 masks (atleast on quakenet). And if you want a spambot protection, i would advice that you make something that checks the amount of messages recieved in the past <number> seconds, if it reaches a certain limit, set silence +*!*@*. Automatic unsetting it after a few m...

silence only blocks PRIVMSG to the bot, not channelmessages. ignore is therefor infact better, silence also resets when you disconnect and ignore does not. When your bot msg-flooded by 100-150 floodbots ... there is no way to handle it without quits with msg "sendq exceeded" On the channe...

Alchera wrote:Silence?

/silence +zoo

Server side ignore for nickname zoo. Used on dalnet, undernet.
Is more effective than ignore.

I need a script to make the eggdrop to use /silence instead of ignore command

I want the bots to place a +m (or whatever mode) in a period of time.
E.g when the bot sets 5 consecutive bans (probably due to flood) in 5 seconds then lock the chan.

Its good to check the kick reason if contains the reason "flood" or everything we want

Thanks you in advance.