Anirudh wrote:
On 9/13/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/13/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Most of what I've seen in the archives is that there are issues that
come up
periodically, with never much consensus or a slow shift in how the
issues
Interestingly, there is no FAQ for this list. That's somewhat rare for such a large list. Then again, what would the questions look like:
Q: Admin X is trying to oppress my neutral point of view! A: No he's not. Fuck off.
... and something similar happens on Wikipedia and the #wikipedia@freenode IRC channel. Blocked users (generally newbies) join the channel to complain against their blocking admins. They are provoked and goaded into retorting badly and then one of the chanops has an excuse to boot them out of the channel. That's not general human behaviour, that's demeaning, dehumanising and inconsiderate trolling from WikiNerds who don't have a social life.
Ahhhh! Sounds like one more good reason to stay away from IRC.
Ec