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The problem with IRC was the channel wars, the hierarchy of founder, ops, +v, etc, and the crazy medieval hierarchy that ensued from it. The easy of use of bot
by Shorel 11y ago
The problem with IRC was the channel wars, the hierarchy of founder, ops, +v, etc, and the crazy medieval hierarchy that ensued from it.
The easy of use of bots and flooding scripts was a downside, not an advantage.
Any web page that embedded IRC had to deal with that nonsense.
- jarek 11y agoOn Slack the channel owner will form a hierarchy too, if it's less problematic it's because Slack is usually used in a professional setting where flaming is generally frowned upon. You see these kind of issues pop up on the easy-to-use Twitter as well. It's a social question. The most the tech did wrong was not making flooding impossible in the first place.