On 22/06/12 05:46, Petr Bena wrote:
I have never seen any such a channel for user support and developers which is getting flooded like this one. It's nearly unusable for people who are seeking help with mediawiki. If you really want to keep the bots in channel, we should create #mediawiki-help for people who are seeking that and don't want to be brought in channel where everyone ignores them because their support question is lost in the feeds. That isn't just unfriendly but it doesn't even make sense to have such a channel. Indeed it's useful for devs, but in this case we shouldn't use it as a support channel
Are you sure they are ignored due to the bots, and it's not just that nobody was looking at the channel at that time? Bots may be implicated, but let's not blame them gratuitously.