Yes I'm reminded of that lack of accountability in this exchange:
A: Why did you, as an admin, do action X within Wikipedia?
B: Well I asked on IRC and they told me to do it
A: Who told you to do it
B: I can't remember but I'm sure it was someone who thought I should do it.
A: So you yourself have no reason to, as an admin, do the action you did?
B: Yes I asked on IRC.
This is a true story. Which is why IRC should be shut down. There is no
accountability, and no transparency. And yet things which pass on it, are
then imposed in-project with no back-trail.
Will Johnson
In a message dated 8/2/2009 11:43:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
saintonge(a)telus.net writes:
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
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