+
+
+Buffering
+---------
+The bot includes message buffering, with two different message queues (plus a "fast" message which sends immediately). This is to help prevent the bot from being flooded off the network by malicious users.
+
+Unfortunately this does mean that the bot can be overwhelmed and take quite a while to respond. As an admin, you can use the `!QCLEAR` command to clear the queues. If you control the IRC server, you can exempt the bot from flooding checks and then set `[erebus] nofakelag = 1` in the bot.config. This will turn off message buffering completely.
+
+
+Using the bot
+-------------
+Commands can be triggered by:
+- Messaging the bot (`/msg Erebus whoami`)
+- Prefixing the command with the bot's name and a colon (`/msg #channel Erebus: whoami`)
+- Or prefixing the command with the trigger character set in bot.config (`/msg #channel !whoami` if `[erebus] trigger = !`)
+
+
+Online Help
+-----------
+A command listing, with most (but not all) of the standard modules, is available at [https://jfr.im/help/](https://jfr.im/help/).
+
+So long as you don't prohibit loading of the help module with `[autoloads] help = 0`, command info will be available with `!HELP <command>`
+
+However, due to the message buffering mentioned above, there is no command listing available over IRC unless nofakelag is enabled. In order to generate a command listing, you must do the following:
+1. Set `[help] path` in the config file, if needed, to a path which exists and is available on the web. f.e. `[help] path = /home/jrunyon/public_html/help/%(#)d.txt`. Several values are available, for use with !GENHELP; they are the same as the prefix characters @#+- (see !HELP GENHELP). This determines the path to which !GENHELP will save output files.
+1. Set `[help] url` in the config file to a path where help can be found, f.e. `[help] url = https://jfr.im/help/%d.txt`. %d (or %s) will be replaced with the user's level. This determines the URL which is provided to users when they !SHOWCOMMANDS
+1. Run `!GENHELP` whenever you change which modules (or commands) are available, or else just set `[help] autogen = 1`.
+
+(With `nofakelag = 1`, `!SHOWCOMMANDS` will spam the user with the whole list of commands.)
+
+
+Support
+-------
+If you have any questions, issues, fixes, etc. message DimeCadmium on irc.1459.io