Feature suggestion: Moderation variant

[MystaraTheGreat]

I'd like to suggest a channel or user mode that performs a variation of moderation.
In particular, I propose that in this mode, user speech is only received by operators of the channel.

Motivation: There are two scenarios in which this could be useful:

(1) Where moderation is required, but the operators still wish to see what is said (e.g. to silence specific users or to receive useful information where /msg would be cumbersome)

(2) With the use of roleplay mode, this allows games to be played in which the identity of each player can be masked (a bot could relay what is said to a new nickname via /npca)

[DanielOaks]

Other servers can do this with the +z OP_MODERATED mode, when that's set any messages blocked by +m, +b, etc will be sent to opers instead. That also allows some complicated setups where regular users get voiced once they prove they're not a bot, for channels which are getting spammed a lot and things like that, can be useful.

[MystaraTheGreat]

Indeed. I believe I've seen it elsewhere.
I thought an advantage of it being a chanmode settable on a user is that for usecase (2) it allows normal conversation to continue.

[DanielOaks]

Yeah normally that's done by setting a mode like OP_MODERATED, and then quieting the specific user somehow. We've got issue #307 for the quieting feature specifically, so I'll let that continue over there and this can be for the sending-blocked-messages-to-opers side of things.

[MystaraTheGreat]

Awesome, thanks

[MvEerd]

Issue #1178 also exists for the opmoderated channel mode

[slingamn]

Yeah, I think this is covered by #307 and #1178.