FPS Chat Room

As part of any interactive variety show, the Funday Pawpet Show relies on its viewers to provide feedback. One such method is the usage of an internet relay chat (IRC) room.

The Funday Pawpet Show utilizes its own chat room, located on irc.pawpet.org. Users can point an IRC client of choice to this server and will be automatically connected. This chatroom is constantly open, and houses visitors during all hours of the day; however, the most traffic is experienced during the show's broadcast.

If you already have an IRC client set up, you can use this link:

irc://irc.pawpet.org/pawpet

If that doesn't work, you need to get an appropriate irc client for your computer.

• A typical IRC client for Windows is mIRC

• A typical IRC client for OS X is Xchat Aqua

• A typical IRC client for Linux is XChat

• Load one of the above programs into your computer, and run it.
• During the first time you run the program, you will be asked to pick a nickname and enter other details, such as your name and email address.
• Nick names should be no more than 15 characters, and contain no spaces or punctuation. The use of - and _ is ok.. ie Puppet_Fan, FPS-Viewer etc.
• Once you enter the dialog, and are taken to a window with a small single line text entry box toward the bottom, click inside the text box.
• Type in the following: /server irc.pawpet.org - or click the link above.
• After a few moments you should see some random text, and somewhere in your irc client, a tab or window should pop up with #pawpet as the title.
• Click on that tab/window and you should see a list of people in that channel, as well as chatter from people already talking.
• Before talking for the first time, be sure to check out the list of do's and do not's below.
• To respond to people, you would type in the text box at the bottom of the window and hit the return key.

These should be the basics of getting online, and as you work the program more, you will learn the other functions, how to save server settings and such.

• Spamming the channel is not appropriate, and is quite frowned upon. Spamming is defined as repeating the same word, phrase, or other text in a short period of time.
• Use Standard American English when chatting, as many chatters do not use English as their first language.
• To perform an action, such as *irc_user laughs at the puppet on stage you would type in /me laughs at the puppet on stage. Action lines are usually highlighted by the IRC client ¹⁾ and the “me” is replaced with your current nick name.
• Use, but don't overuse acronyms. L O L, ROFLMAO and the likes can improve typing speed but a conversation will get harder to follow if every other line has only an acronym on it.
• Since IRC is text based, your emotions or rather your facial expression and the tone of your voice won't show up on the other end. Be sure to mark sarcasm as such using 'smileys' also known as 'emoticons'. Common ones include :) - :( - ;) - :P or the horizontal versions like o.o - x.x and ^.^. Search the net for 'emoticons' to get more ideas!

You can utilize a web based irc client. It isn't pretty, but in desperate measures, it will get you in.

Web IRC Client

• irc statistics
• irc logs