> And of the channels that do have real people, those people often seem to be there for no reason other than to tell people to RTFM, It depends a lot on the co

> And of the channels that do have real people, those people often seem to be there for no reason other than to tell people to RTFM, It depends a lot on the community. I started using IRC in ~2010 as a teenager and I don't remember ever seeing someone being told to RTFM (except ironically). > play topic nazi to such an extreme level that apparently nothing is actually on topic, I've seen some topic nazis, but in most channels, discussions can go very far away from the topic. > or just generally berate people for having the gall to say something in the channel. what? > Ops are extremely touchy and seem willing to immediately kick people rather than On most channels I'm in (mostly tech channels, freenode/oftc/mozilla), I don't even know who the ops are.