[00:00] <Flannel> Well, if they're idling, send them a query and/or a memoserv explaining that it's not an exactly appropriate nick and it'd be appreciated if they changed it.
[00:00] <Flannel> (I assume "joining and quitting" is on the order of days or hours, not minutes)
[00:01] <Flannel> Try a few times, in case they're AFK for long periods, and then banforward.
[00:01] <Flannel> If theyre not saying anything, than they're not causing trouble with that nick, because no one sees it except a few times a day.  So you don't need to immediately make a knee-jerk reaction.
[00:02] <valorie> thank you Flannel
[00:03] <Flannel> (banforward is so they can eventually discover the ban and fix it, the ban would be "we did this because you weren't ever awake".)
[00:03] <valorie> I've messaged
[00:04] <Flannel> Now comes the waiting :)
[00:05] <Flannel> In my experience, people have no problem changing nicks when asked politely (unless they're being obtuse on purpose).  It's harder to talk them into changing if you start off by poking them with a ban.
[00:07] <elky> and usually poking them with words will give you better reasons to ban them anyway
[00:08] <Unit193> Or at least some context to it.
[15:07] <k1l_> hi TJ-
[15:08] <k1l_> how can we help you?
[15:09] <TJ-> oops! didn't realise the client was in this channel
[15:09] <k1l_> np :)
[15:09] <TJ-> that's a left-over from 3 weeks ago when I was last on :)