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In general any public channel that reaches a critical mass eventually gets overwhelmed with noise/trolls/elitists. It really just takes a few bad eggs to ruin
by shuzchen 14y ago
In general any public channel that reaches a critical mass eventually gets overwhelmed with noise/trolls/elitists. It really just takes a few bad eggs to ruin the experience for everybody.
That's just the nature of things though, it's hard to keep a handle on huge channels unless the channel ops are eternally vigilant. I was in #python some time ago, and there were good moments but there were lots of bad moments.
- lvh 14y agoCould you be more specific about the bad experiences? (I'm the Freenode Group Contact for #python,#python-*. If you have constructive criticism to make any of those channels better, I would be in a position to implement them.) I will happily admit that any sufficiently large group will have some bad apples in it, but I certainly hope that we (I'm speaking for the operators of #python) have tried, are trying, and will continue to try, to limit them :) We've tried many things in the past, including crazy ideas like having two channels, but that ended up being counterproductive.