How can I get to be an IRCop?
The easy answer to this question is that if you go around asking IRCops how you can get to be one, you probably will never be one. There is not a list of potential IRCops or any kind of application procedure. There are actually two ways to become an IRCop: start your own Undernet server or get asked by an admin to be an IRCop on his server. Starting a server is not practical for many people, so the latter is the more common way. Here it becomes a bit of a Catch-22 – an admin will only ask someone she trusts to be an IRCop on her server, but if she thinks someone is cozying up to her just to get an O:line, she won’t take that person seriously. In the past, there have been some channels that were considered good places for admins to find potential IRCops. However, as soon as word got around that this was happening, such channels quickly become populated by “wannabe IRCops” who do not have the people or technical skills necessary, only the wish to have “IRC power.” Right now, it is actual
