On the Fuel Rats IRC network, all registered users (i.e, rats) are given special vhosts masks, or virtual hosts. These Vhost masks show up in your channel join/leave and quit messages, and your WHOIS information. It is a quick way to discern what role a particular rat might have, and also works with some of our systems to grant privileges to certain bot services.
| VHost Mask | Role | Privileges | Contact if you need... |
|---|---|---|---|
| *.recruit.fuelrats.com | Recruit | Join #drillrats, send private messages. | Fresh meat for the grill. Er. drill. |
| *.rat.fuelrats.com | Rat | As above. Voiced in official Fuel Rat channels. | Fuel. |
| *.overseer.fuelrats.com | Overseer | Can drill recruits. Access to tweet, !fact add/change/delete and !md reviewing. Has half-op (%) in public channels. | A drill, a case deleted or restored, tweets from the official Fuel Rats account. |
| *.techrat.fuelrats.com | Techrat | As an overseer, but with elevated privileges on JIRA and Confluence. | Technical help with Fuel Rat services, such as bots, JIRA or Confluence. |
| *.netadmin.fuelrats.com | Techrat with Oper powers | As Techrats, but with full control of IRC, and likely all other Fuel Rats systems | Technical help, emergency situations involving bots or servers. |
| *.op.fuelrats.com | Op/Janitor | Kick/Ban in official Fuel Rat channels, otherwise as Overseer | Mediation with another rat, problems with cats or other vermin, snickers. |
| *.admin.fuelrats.com | Janitor with Oper powers | Kick/Ban, GZLine from network. | As other janitors. |
| bot.fuelrats.com | Automation | Varying. Some bots have the ability to auto moderate. Don't anger RatMama or her loyal FIDO! | Botty things. Only MechaSqueak will respond to anything in PM. |