Clueful Everything

From ClueWiki

Typing correctly in Internet chat rooms and even private messages has become a lost art. The vast majority of people participating in these chat rooms do not realize or believe how much of an effect a simple thing such as spelling out the word "you" or capitalizing the word "I" can have on how other people online view them and the content of the conversation. The truth is that the proper use of language online has a very large effect on many of the surroundings. Unfortunately, most people do not realize this and succumb to laziness. -- Crispy's guide to Clueful Chatting

And so on. Crispy's guide describes in great detail how should a clueful person write. But clueness isn't just about how you type. It's also about how you act. Which is what

My definition of "being clueful" is:

• Don't abuse your privileges.
  I don't care if you happen to be co-owner of the network and the author of The Clueful Bot; rules that are targeted to one particular user and have such harsh consequences as losing a million points (just because that particular user gave you a nickname) are plain abuse of power.
  I don't care if you happen to be good friends with the owner of another server, annoying the hell out of every user of that server is not clueful.

• Respect others' privacy.
  This is related to the previous point. If I store my data or run a program on your server, I trust you to not mess with it. If I have an IRC client on the background, and you take control of it to impersonate me, you'd better have a really good excuse for that. If this impersonation is the deletion of 100,000 points from another user, there is no excuse.
  Same goes for editing my files. The fact that you can override any protection does not mean you should.

• Respect others.
  The more privileges a person has, the more evident are the symptoms of assholitis. I'm not going to treat you as a god just because you are armed with /sajoin and /kill. I'm not going to ignore any use or abuse of those, either. The same applies to mere mortals too.

• Respect our rules, even if you wrote them.
  If you just came to our network, here's one thing you should know: Not reading the rules, or not being able to, does not mean you don't need to follow them. And when someone else points that out to you, you'd better listen to him; "fuck u" as a reply doesn't impress us at all. And if you manage to get K:lined, it's because you deserved that, not because "cluenet sucks".

Cluenet has a great, clueful community. However, I cannot say the same about its masters.