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These are fairly obvious to anyone over the age of 13... (except the first one perhaps)

Be patient, be polite, help out, and don't ask ambiguous questions without enough detail.

An inclusion of where / what servers to go to for help would be more useful. I think most people get lost with that rather than etiquette.

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You'd be surprised how many people in there aren't over the age of 13!

I was on IRC before 13; I found the existing IRC guides to be very helpful.

I first encountered IRC at the age of 9 or so, when I installed Linux for the first time and randomly opened X-Chat, which took me to Freenode. By the time I was 13, I had engaged in screaming competitions with GNU fundamentalists in #gnu, asked hundreds of stupid questions in ##linux, and provided support to countless others in #pearpc and #distrowatch, and obviously grown a much thicker skin.

I find that finding which room to go is rather trivial problem. I find dealing with people in irc; would be the main problem when first trying it out and getting to learn the ropes with technical people online. Those things may be fairly obvious but they happen everyday; in every room.

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