half operator

[Yngve Spjeld Landro]

Can anyone please enlighten me on the context of the string "Half Operator"? It doesn't carry any meaning to me as it stands now.

TIA.

:-) YS Landro
Norwegian Nynorsk

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[Ethan Blanton]

nynorsk@... spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Can anyone please enlighten me on the context of the string "Half
> Operator"? It doesn't carry any meaning to me as it stands now.

This is a status that an IRC user can have in some channels on some
networks.  An operator is a user who has the power to perform various
administration tasks in a channel (chat room), and a half operator is
a user who has some of those powers, but not others.  There is
probably an idiomatic translation for this.

Hope that helps,
Ethan

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[Yngve Spjeld Landro]

Ethan Blanton <eblanton@...> skreiv Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:08:43  
+0200

> nynorsk@... spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> Can anyone please enlighten me on the context of the string "Half
>> Operator"? It doesn't carry any meaning to me as it stands now.
>
> This is a status that an IRC user can have in some channels on some
> networks.  An operator is a user who has the power to perform various
> administration tasks in a channel (chat room), and a half operator is
> a user who has some of those powers, but not others.  There is
> probably an idiomatic translation for this.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ethan
>

Indeed, it did :-) Thank you.

- YS Landro
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