opping

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The promotion of a user to operator status within an IRC chat channel.

   The sudden opping of an unknown user raised suspicions among the regulars.

   The channel's founder personally oversaw the opping of every new moderator.

   Similarpromotion

   Oppositedemotion

   Note

   Here the -ing form has become a countable noun. Each opping is a single mode change on a channel, so oppings can be counted and batched. Roger Espel Llima, writing in 1994, describes delaying automatic ops to group several oppings into one. Its natural partner is deopping, the removal of that same status. The two travel together, as when a channel service is said to control a channel's oppings and deoppings.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of op.

   The administrator is opping trusted members before the meeting starts.

   Opping regulars during busy hours keeps the channel properly moderated.

   Note

   The doubled p keeps the short vowel of op, just as in stopping and shopping. The form carries every verb sense of op. In chat channels, opping someone grants operator powers. In informal Australian English, the same spelling means buying from op shops or browsing them. As a gerund it shades into the noun for a promotion, so context decides whether you are reading an action or an event.

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