i want to make my channel auto kick anybody who's not allowed in, without me having to manually ban them....

does anyone have any suggestions for doing this?

Make your channel Invite Only

wont people spend a bunch of time knocking then?

Possibly, and I admit I didn't think of that. Other options include using a key, mode Private &/or Secret

well if u mean u have the names already i guess u can jus use:

No, adamb53, that would not work, as (generally) you can't specify a <name> as a prefix in the ON JOIN event. The exceptions to this are the $me and ! prefixes. The $me prefix means that the commands are only executed when you join, and the ! prefix means they will be executed when anyone EXCEPT you joins.

You can make the channel by invite only, and in X you can set the mode to so that X will not allow anyone in except for those who are registered with X in your channel. If you go to the #bothouse or have a bot of your own than you can set a script in the bot to kickban anyone not registered in the bot, but it sounds like you and yuor co-ops are going to have to set the mode to i for invite only. Remember that once any of you leave the channel that the mode will go away once the channel shuts down.

it depends on if you want to keep a list of allowed users, or a list of banned users, or both. using a channel key in combination with +i would probably be best. you can set +I on a user!!ident@host just like a ban to give them an exception from the +i. You could still keep an extra list of users that are banned or allowed or both and set up an on join script to compare it.

Chanserv has a restricted setting....

/msg chanserv help set restricted

Syntax: SET channel RESTRICTED {ON | OFF}

Enables or disables the restricted access option for a
channel. When restricted access is set, users who would
normally be disallowed from having channel operator
privileges (users with negative access levels and, if
secure ops is set, users not on the access list) will
instead be kicked and banned from the channel.