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Based on my own minimal experience, the majority of these IRC channels are just a small group of "Anonymous" doing whatever they want, different channels will g
by citricsquid 16y ago
Based on my own minimal experience, the majority of these IRC channels are just a small group of "Anonymous" doing whatever they want, different channels will get publicised at different times through different means, "Anonymous" doesn't exist in any way beyond being a label people use, I guess it could be compared to "emo" or "jock" in high school; they have no "leadership" but people join these groups and label themselves as such.
> The show was run by a couple of admins he identified as "Q," "Owen," and "CommanderX"—and Barr had used social media data and subterfuge to map those names to three real people, two in California and one in New York.
isn't Q the bot that runs on quakenet as a proxy admin?
- dekz 16y agoPossibly, but these if these "relations" are created purely from IRC dicussion, I don't think that happens on quakenet.
- shin_lao 16y agoQ is probably a reference to Star Trek character's Q: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Q http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Q
- khafra 16y agoI don't know what the chances are that Barr's actually that stupid/crazy, but Citricsquid is saying there's a reasonable chance the IRC admin Barr "tracked down the real identity of" was actually a bot.
- blahedo 16y agoHuh. Maybe, but I assumed James Bond's Q was more likely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(James_Bond) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(James_Bond)