Wildcards

[Omar]

What are they:

• Wildcards are a replace for characters to help you for fast operations like bans so its really useful.

Types of it

• The wildcards got only 2 type of using it:

• 1- The question mark (?) replaces one character.

• 2- The asterisk (*) replaces a string of characters (a sequence of characters).

[*]Some of you gone say i didnt understand anything .. just keep going and u will get it

What you need to know before using it:

• 1- Its must be used only when really necessary, as its purpose is to widen the ban.
  2- When you are using it you must be focus and wise to not get risk of banning innocent chatters.
  3- The (*) wildcard can very effective and can also be potentially very dangerous.

How its used

Note: A ban always contains five parts: nick!ident@IPaddress = *!*@* so lets say we will have a hostmask 

            Johnny!whatever@FB6346.B8C837.423B54.CEE52F

   

Code:

/mode #channel +b nick!ident@IPaddress

1- Nick

• Johnny!*@* = This will ban the nickname Johnny only and will not affect other users with nicknames.
  
         
• Johnny?!*@* = This means all Johnny nicks with one character after it are banned (Johnny1, Johnny2, JohnnyH).
  
         
• Johnny*!*@* = This means all Johnny nicks with one or more characters after it are banned (Johnny4, Johnny10, johnnytheman).
  
         
• *Johnny*!*@* = lock" the nickname on the left side too with a * in front of the nick as well after the nick (lemoJohnnyin, likeJohnnyutler).

2- Ident

• *!whatever@* = This bans only the users using the ident "whatever".
               
         
• *!whatever???@* = This bans all users using the ident "whatever" with 3 characters after it (whatever1sa, whatever156, whateveryou).
             
         
• *!whatever*@* = This bans users using the ident "whatever" with (a string of) characters after it (whatever4, whatever10, whatevertheman)..
                     
         
• *!*whatever*@* = This bans all users using an ident with the word "whatever" in it(whateveryouwant, likewhateverthing, whateverneed.

3- IP

 

• Note:This ban is only used on the ban jump if you keep ban the user and he keep changing his IP

• *!*@FB6346.B8C837.423B54.CEE52F = This bans Johnny's cloaked IP
  
         
• *!*@*.423B54.CEE52F = This bans the two last parts of Johnny's cloaked IP
  
         
• *!*@FB6346.B8C837.* = This bans the two first parts of Johnny's cloaked IP (domain)
  
         
• *!*@FB6346.* = This bans the first part of Johnny's cloaked IP (wide domain)

  Note: Always be carefull with (domain/wide domain) bans, lots of users use the same domain, a ban like this could be too broad!.

[sanyasiBABA]

Very Nice and Detailed Explanation.
Short n Simple, Helpful 4 New Mods.
Beautiful Post, Thanks Alot.

[c0der]

Hello,

*!whatever???@* = This bans all users using the ident "whatever" with 3 characters after it (whatever1, whatever15, whateveryou).

The -> whatever1 and whatever15 shouldn't be affected by such a ban, only if it was 3 characters as it's mentioned 

Cheers,

[Omar]

yea true.. fixed thanks foD

[c0der]

You're welcome MinD