[WikiEN-l] IRC Group Contacts Surgery, August 2009

[Ray Saintonge]

Jay Litwyn wrote:
> One reason they are not publicly archived is so that discussions are not 
> driven into DCC for want of not being held to word, quoted, or caught 
> displaying a degree of ignorance or a prominent prejudice that you actually 
> want to be argued out of. It can be live and off the cuff remarks, perhaps 
> even admissions about personal and otherwise private life. There really is 
> no telling how your logs will date. I remember one time when it was newsfeed 
> about war in Tibet, then noise about magnetic levitation. I find IRC tiring 
> to read and follow when it gets active, then boring when it slows down. Then 
> there was that ad for carbonated black piss. The trick is to make the logs 
> yourself in whatever group you want, and pretty much keep it to yourself.
>
>   
I prefer having nothing to do with IRC, but I am often left with the 
impression that its participants come to some agreements which they 
treat as decisive elsewhere.  That subverts acountaability.

Ec