_posts: quick blog on PL50 with Atheme

_posts/2017-03-19-imitate-matrix-atheme.md

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+title: "Imitating Matrix moderator at IRC using Atheme services"
+category: [english]
+tags: [Matrix, ChanServ, room, channel, moderator, op]
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+*This post should probably be outside of my blog, but I cannot think of
+ appropiate way to put it to wiki.*
+
+I am going to assume that you already know what Matrix is, but you might
+not know that moderator and power level 50 (AKA PL50) are the same thing.
+
+What PL50 can do is kicking/banning users (if their PL is less than of the
+moderator) and changing topic. Adjusting PL of other users is reserved to
+PL100.
+
+1. Create a template ("MXMOD") for adding mods more easily later.
+   `/msg ChanServ TEMPLATE #channel MXMOD +AOt`.
+    * This allows the user to see the channel access list or flags with
+      ChanServ, get automatically opped or op themselves and change the
+      topic with ChanServ or by themselves if TOPICLOCK is enabled.
+2. Optionally enable SECURE so users without `+o/+O` flag won't get opped
+   (and thus it won't sync to Matrix as PL50 if ops syncing is enabled
+   for the network): `/msg ChanServ SET #channel SECURE on`.
+3. Actually op the mod
+   `/msg ChanServ FLAGS #channel moderatorUsername MXMOD`.
+
+Why would you want to do this? If your moderator doesn't use IRC, but only
+users Matrix, they won't need other flags than those. The ghost of the
+moderator should be opped at IRC for actions such as kick and topic change
+to sync.