Ok I'll just clean stuff up then instead of doing the DB wipe. I'll clean up things for newcomers as much as possible, I'll add that to my personal todo list.

I think a public alpha would maximize usership, so let's try that.

Okay don't worry about the permanent operator thing if it's that hard. It's honestly not a big deal unless we get people taking over IRC channels and doing bad stuff like kicking and muting users, although eventually we should build some safeguards for that. It's not a high priority for the next 2 weeks.