On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+v is fine. At the risk of sounding pedantic, I'll
point out the
freenode policy frowns on leaving people +o when it's not
needed (although I find the policy kind of silly).
Guideline, _not_ policy. See
http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml .
I have to say that in my experience, having people with +v and/or +o (I
prefer +o, because in the case of active ops, they can remove trolls etc.
faster since they don't need to do a /cs op first) is more helpful than
harmful. Admittedly, there's the possibility that new users might, for
example, PM opped or voiced people with their (general) questions instead
of asking the questions in public, but I think we do a good job at
encouraging open, public, logged discussion.
Still, +1 for having opped people on #mediawiki. That being said, we
probably should take this into a separate thread instead of hijacking
this...
Thanks and regards,
--
Jack Phoenix
MediaWiki developer