You are declaring variables before any checks. It would make the script alot neater if you would do all the if (%c) && ($nick($active,$me,oh)) { mode $iif($active ischan,$v1,echo -a This feature can only be used in channels.) blah blah blah checks before the script even tries to execute, so the script is very messy. Also there are scripts that are all in one and not for one specific purpose like this one is. for example http://www.hawkee.com/snippet/2166/ is the best one made so far for this. In my opinion there is nothing like a short efficient script thats is fluent and parses nice and efficient without all the $iif bottleneck checks in the middle. but even those are in the wrong places as the script tries to execute before these checks are being made.