We’ve prepared a new contest (one of our biggest to date) and are inviting everyone to participate. Up for grabs are 40 rare powers that will be divided between all the winners (see all the details here).
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Xat Flag Power – Surprise!
This morning Xat revealed a new power called Flag.
Flag simply allows you to add flag icon to your avatar (waving or still) or single/multiple flags to your nick. This new power supports over 180 country variations and been released just days ahead of the 2010 World Cup (that’s soccer!).
To make the Xat flag use (flag) or (flag#). To make a country flag use (flag#wus) for the animated usa flag. If you’d like to make a still or fixed version add a “1″ between the “w” and country abbreviation as in (flag#w1us).
Although we’re not sure where Xat got their inspiration for this new power, we have been promoting Google’s Word Cup power on both our Xatworld and Mundoxat homepages for some time. Congrat’s to Google for the great idea!
We imagine that after the World Cup people will still find it useful as a nationality power; something that I think many people have been waiting for. 
You’ve been G-lined!
It seems that our original guess on what Xat’s new Gline power may be a definite possibility. The image below was posted to the Mundoxat.com forum and presumably it came from the Help chat.
Although it looks like an obvious fake, it did get our wheels turning and once again we turned to Google.com to see what we could find. I’ll paraphrase from a Wiki article on G-line:
“…A G-line or global kill is a global network ban applied to a user.
Whenever a G-lined person attempts to connect to the network, either the services or the daemon will automatically disconnect the client, often displaying a message explaining the “reasoning” behind the ban.
G-lines are normally applied to a user who continues to abuse the network by connecting to a different server. G-lines are often regarded as an extreme measure, only to be used in cases of repeated abuse when extensive attempts have been made to reason with the offending user. Therefore, especially on larger networks, often only very high ranking global operators are permitted to set them.
G-lines are typically set as *@IP or *@host, with the first being the better option. G-lines do still wait for an ident response from the connecting user but immediately close the socket once the user’s IP is compared to the G-line list and a match is found…”
It might be a bit too techy but in short, Gline is looking like it may be a banning feature of some sorts. Maybe a more extreme extension of Stricter banning or, if one reads between the lines and looks at it in more general terms, maybe a way to have more precise banning control over your own chat. We still don’t know for sure