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The USA launched a new system to inform their citizens about the status of the HoW program. General information about this system can be read in the USA Org article .
This article will focus on a more in-depth description, that is especially useful to the people running HoW.
The script is only active in our strikes channel. These commands will not work in any other channel. To get more help on IRC, you can use the .how help command:
<vivianne> .how help
-Newspaper- Hell on Wheels commands:
-Newspaper- status - Displays the current status
-Newspaper- link - Gives you the download link for the userscript
-Newspaper- pass - Gets the current password
-Newspaper- setpass - Sets a new password - Everyone will need to update their password!
-Newspaper- open - Set status to "open"
-Newspaper- sit / situational / standby - Set status to "situational"
-Newspaper- close / closed - Set status to "closed"
-Newspaper- help - This menu
If you supply no parameter with the ".how" command, it will simply display the status. The status can be either "open", "situational" or "closed". This is the same as the ".how status" command:
<vivianne> .how
<Newspaper> Current status: open
<vivianne> .how status
<Newspaper> Current status: open
In order to change the status, you can use one of three commands:
.how open
.how situational
.how close
For your convenience, I added a few more commands:
.how sit
.how standby
.how closed
The first two (sit and standby) are the same as "situational", just shorter to write. The last one (closed) does the same as "close".
Should you forget the userscript link, you can use .how link:
<vivianne> .how link
-Newspaper- Download the userscript at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/168006
To request the password, you use .how pass. This command requires halfops or higher, as we give halfops to USA citizens. This is to prevent anyone from entering strikes and requesting the password. If someone asks you in private for the password, make sure they are USA citizens.
<vivianne> .how pass
-Newspaper- Password: test
If you believe the pasword has been compromised, you can change it. The command for this is .how setpass. This command requires ops or higher, to prevent abuse. Keep in mind all users will need to update their password, so don't use this for fun!
<vivianne> .how setpass test
<Newspaper> Password changed.
Once you give the command to open HoW, a timer will start. After one and a half hours, the bot will ask to confirm HoW status. If you do not confirm the status (.how open or .how sit), it will automatically close after 15 minutes. This is a precaution in case you need to run out quickly, or simply forget to change status to closed.
I have only tested it with Firefox + Greasemonkey and Chrome + Tampermonkey. Should anyone use a different setup, I can look into making it work for that setup. It is not possible to use just Chrome, because the script uses GM_setValue and GM_getValue. These aren't supported in native Chrome. I know I could use localstorage for it, but that would require 2 different scripts.
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