The rules are in place to make #SEO a nice place to chat with friendly people about SEO. Keep that in mind and you will do fine. Be patient and courteous! People are giving up their free time to help in here.

  1. DO NOT FUCK WITH THE CHANOPS
  2. Use Google first.
  3. If there's a FAQ for the topic, or you're sent a URL, please read it - the chances are, it contains exactly what you need to know.
  4. No advertising your own stuff. Pasting links to show examples of your site is fine, trying to get traffic by doing so isn't.
  5. No spam. This is unsolicited advertising. If we care about your products or business, we'll ask after them.
  6. No racism.
  7. No repeating. Please be patient with your questions! If you genuinely think you've not been heard, and a few hundred lines of conversation have gone by without an answer, then feel free to ask again politely.
  8. No abuse. Neither ops nor other channel members want to be hassled.
  9. No trolling. Don't deliberately try to get in an argument, or tell people they are wrong just for the sake of it.
  10. No linking to gross stuff.
  11. No clones.
  12. No unauthorized IRC bots.
  13. No away messages or otherwise automatic notifications of your online presence.
  14. No excessive pasting (www.pastebin.com - or google pastebot / pastebin).
  15. If you want us to digg/furl/whatever you, entertain us! A curt message of "digg me http://url/" will probably result in a kick, for bad manners :p
  16. No being an idiot :)