> What do they do to prevent people from quickly founding a channel around a new topic and squatting on it? I don't think this is a huge issue for IRC communit

> What do they do to prevent people from quickly founding a channel around a new topic and squatting on it? I don't think this is a huge issue for IRC communities. Freenode in particular had a bureaucracy around #<name> channels to prevent this (and even that was rather ineffective in the single case I was almost-personally involved in), but ##<name> channels were explicitly more free-for-all.