> Is that really specific to IRC? I'm sure there's at least as much drama on Discord or large Whatsapp/telegram groups today. Well yeah but with IRC you used t

> Is that really specific to IRC? I'm sure there's at least as much drama on Discord or large Whatsapp/telegram groups today. Well yeah but with IRC you used to be able to perform hostile takeovers by knocking people offline strategically. You can't really do that with Discord so the drama tends to stay as an argument rather than a DDoS battle