If you want your own chat channel make sure you have your nickname registered and that you are identified to your nickname. Here are our instructions on how to do that:

How do I change my nickname? (http://www.vbulletin-chat.com/showthread.php?t=24439)
How do I register my nickname? (http://www.vbulletin-chat.com/showthread.php?t=24440)
How do I identify to my nickname? (http://www.vbulletin-chat.com/showthread.php?t=24441)

Once you're registered and identified to your nickname you can join an empty channel. Make sure you are the channel operator, you will need the @ sign in front of your nickname.

The benefits of a registered channel are that you will always be the founder and owner of the channel. You will have full control of what is going on. We have a high policy on abuse and run a channel service bot to help you maintain this control. The channel will not get deleted, die out or be removed from our chat network if there is no ops, or if everybody leaves. And if you lost your op status you can identify to your nickname and use the chanserv bot to ask the status back. After which you will get it. And with the help of chanserv you can ban and kick users, give ops to others and maintain an access list. And if all fails, we have irc operators who can always jump in and help out.

/msg chanserv register #mychan mypass mydescription

Syntax: REGISTER channel password description

Examples: /msg chanserv register #vbfans megasecret my vbfans chat channel
(this will register #vbfans with the pass megasecret and the description 'my vbfans chat channel')


Registers a channel in the ChanServ database. In order to use this command, you must first be a channel operator on the channel you're trying to register. The password is used with the IDENTIFY command to allow others to make changes to the channel settings at a later time. The last parameter, which must be included, is a general description of the channel's purpose.

When you register a channel, you are recorded as the "founder" of the channel. The channel founder is allowed to change all of the channel settings for the channel; ChanServ will also automatically give the founder channel-operator privileges when s/he enters the channel. See the ACCESS command (/msg ChanServ HELP) for information on giving a subset of these privileges to other channel users.


At any time you can come to #help for help on how to maintain your channel or how to get certain features. Or simply post on our forums here.

Why would someone not register? I don't see the point in that.

Hi!
I have a question on setting up a chat channel.
You said to join an empty chat channel, I think you have underestimated my ignorance. ;) :D
How do I join an empty channel? The rest of it looks easy but I'm not sure how to start an empty channel so I'm stuck.

Thanks in advance for the time and help!

i don't understand any of this

Before registering a channel, you must first register a nickname (http://www.vbulletin-chat.com/showthread.php?t=24440) with NickServ. If you haven't registered your nick type:

/msg nickserv register password email
(Replace password with a password you can remember and email with your email address. Once you are done registering your nick, you are all set to register a channel.)

To create a channel, think of a channel name you will like to use and type:
/join#channelname(Example, if you wish to select the channel name #MyFirstChannel, you will type: /join #MyFirstChannel.)

Be sure you have Ops (@) besides your nickname then use the command:
/msg chanserv register #channelname passwordhere channeldescriptionhere(In this example, we will register the channel #MyFirstChannel using abcdefg as the password and A Cool Chat Channel as its description. So, you will type: /msg chanserv register #MyFirstChannel abcdefg A Cool Chat Channel )