FAQ

1. How do I change my nickname?
2. Why should I register my nickname? How do I register my nickname?
3. How do I login / identify?
4. How do I express an action in 3rd person?
5. What is the topic?
6. I can’t receive DCC. What’s wrong?
7. I can’t send DCC. What’s wrong?
8. I lost my password or my nickname registration expired. What should I do?
9. How do I join a subroom, like the ones for the national finals?
10. How do I create a subroom?
11. The Java chat doesn’t work for me. What can I do?
12. Are there any rules?
13. What languages are allowed in the chat?
14. Where do the people in the chat come from?
15. What is MB?

Type the example line below, replacing “NewNickname” with your new nickname, then press enter.

We share the chat server with a number of other unrelated rooms, so someone else might want to chat using your nickname. Registering your nickname means that it’s yours forever and nobody else can take it (although please note that registrations lapse if you don’t use your nickname for a period of 14 days).

To register, make sure that your current nickname is the one you want to register, then type the line below, replacing “password” with your chosen password and “email” with your email address:

After you have registered your nickname, you have to “identify” yourself whenever you log on to the chat to prove it’s you – otherwise your nickname will be changed. To identify, type the line below, replacing “password” with the password you chose when you registered:

We absolutely recommend to type the identification command in the “Status” window and *not* in the main chat window in order to avoid sharing your password with others. This can happen if you forget (or mistype) the slash in the beginning, and it *has* happened several times before.

Type the example line below, replacing “listens to the winning song of 2030″ with what you are really doing

Whenever you enter the chat, you should read the topic. The topic is the technical term for the line at the top of every chat session, and it contains important information such as event announcements, webstream links for national finals, etc.

It is displayed as soon as you enter the chat, so make sure you check it out!

The topic doesn’t display properly when using the Java chat. Unfortunately, we do not have any influence over this.

Check your settings in mIRC and maybe your firewall.

For more information, read the support pages of your software.

Please note that DCC does not work on the Java chat.

mIRC: http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/getproblems.html

Colloquy: http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/FAQs#WhatisDCCDoesColloquysupportit

We have also found that DCC problems often occur if you use a router to connect to the Internet.

Check your settings in mIRC and maybe your firewall.

For more information, read the support pages of your software.

Please note that DCC does not work on the Java chat.

mIRC: http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/sendproblems.html

Colloquy: http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/FAQs#WhatisDCCDoesColloquysupportit

We have also found that DCC problems often occur if you use a router to connect to the Internet.

You can try to register your nickname again as described in Q2.

This should usually work unless the nickname has been registered by someone else in the meantime. In this case, you will have to choose a new nickname.

As mentioned above, the person taking “your” nickname is likely to be someone from a different chatroom on the same server, although it can happen that people with the same names try to register for our chat.

Please note that registrations lapse if you don’t use your nickname for a period of 14 days. Unfortunately, we have no influence over this time limit.

Either double-click on the name of the room in the chat window (room names are shown like this, with an # in front of the actual name):

or type this then press enter:

If you want to create a new room for more than 2 people, just think of a name, type it and join it as described in Q9. The room is created as soon as the first chatter joins it and lasts until the last chatter leaves.

You can let other people know about it by telling them the name, including the # sign. Please note that a room with the same name may already exist, so you should check if the room is free before you make it public, as otherwise you might land somewhere you don’t want to be.

If you only see a link to www.java.com, this means that the Java chat doesn’t work on your current browser with the current settings. Make sure that Java is activated and that you have the latest version. Also try with as many browsers as you can.

According to euirc.eu (our chat server), a new version of the webchat will be launched in 2010.

If you see a white panel after trying to connect, wait until the chat is fully loaded. This might take a few seconds.

Only one: Just be friendly, don’t be an idiot.

Please remember that #esc is a chat for ESC fans, not strictly about ESC. We’re equally happy chatting about the 2004 Albanian final as our plans for the summer holidays.

There are no language rules. If you find people who speak the same language(s) as you, you are free to communicate in that language.

However, please try not to do long monologues in a language no one understands.

The standard language for communication is English, but languages often spoken in #esc include German, Swedish, Turkish, French, Portuguese and Dutch.

Planet Eurovision! But seriously: our regular chatters include people from all over the world, from America to Australia and Lapland to the Caucasus.

Most of us are from Europe.

We have had very few visitors from South America, Africa or Asia to date, but we are happy to welcome chatters from anywhere and everywhere!

“MB” is short for the Message Board on our partner site www.escnation.com. A lot of our chatters are also active members there, so it gets mentioned quite a lot, especially in the evening hours.