hi BlueThen, I'm using this in the way Cheiron wanted it, as a flood gate, but is there anyway to have it so it doesn't kick ops and half-ops, and that it wont kick people for repeating lol, lmao, lmfao and haha, and other stuff like that, thank you, great script btw

this is the current script I am using.

on *:text:*:#: {
  if ($readini(logs.ini,$nick,last) == $1-) {
    if ($readini(logs.ini,$nick,warns) == $null) {
      writeini -n logs.ini $nick warns 0
    }
    writeini -n logs.ini $nick warns $calc($readini(logs.ini,$nick,warns) + 1)
    if ($readini(logs.ini,$nick,warns) == 4) {
      .kick $chan $nick Repetitive messages
    } 
  }
  if ($readini(logs.ini,$nick,last) != $1-) {
    writeini -n logs.ini $nick warns 0
  }
  writeini -n logs.ini $nick last $1-
}

thanks again - Micheál.