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> You split up the community into silos that shares the same identify servers, so that groups of people can moderate topics of conversation and practically stee
by Lammy 5y ago
> You split up the community into silos that shares the same identify servers, so that groups of people can moderate topics of conversation and practically steer these "online eternal meetings" towards their intended purpose.
This is also a textbook COINTELPRO-style technique for controlling/misdirecting activist groups.
> And the more channels with more (useful) humans to communicate with, the better a chat gets.
Luckily our wetware comes with a built-in defense mechanism against this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
- dragontamer 5y agoI'm talking about the most barebone controls, such as keeping a C++ IRC channel on topic. You can split things up into official #C++ or ##C++ (unofficial), or #C++-Social, and then use your ops powers to tell people where to go, while writing bot-macros that answer basic questions. Without controls, people can't even stay on topic. If (Insert Political Event) happens, even C++ channels get overwhelmed by those events, even though its completely irrelevant. ------- And I do know that the #c++ channel is a bit zealous with its moderation. They're probably "too serious". But still, the controls offered by IRC exist for a reason. Guiding people to remain on topic is very helpful in practice.