On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Chad innocentkiller@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