privs
	privs noun Privileges. Collectively, these are special status flags which are set for either a player, an account, or a persona. Each priv enables or disables a (different) form of individual treatment by the game. Some status flags are not regarded as privs despite being implemented the same way, because they don't confer any advantage; for example "playing for free" would be a priv, but "being logged" would not. The term is normally pluralised even when used to refer to a single flag, eg. "You can't shout, you only have guest privs"; the singular form is used only to isolate a generic privilege for the purpose of discussing privs in general, or as an adjective for the word 'bit' in cases where privileges arise from a combination of a number of more atomic flags ("Which priv bit has to be set for you to be able to rename library entries?" - toggleable flags only need one bit to store their data, and this is how they are normally implemented). To have the relevant privs is to be privved. See wiz bit.
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