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The natural slant on IRC is away from intelligent discourse and toward a cross between texting and one-line jokes with friends. What? I could name 20 channels
by BCM43 13y ago
The natural slant on IRC is away from intelligent discourse and toward a cross between texting and one-line jokes with friends.
What? I could name 20 channels of the top of my head this is not true for.
- hderms 13y agotech-oriented channels? Care to name any?
- diakritikal 13y agoThousands of them actually http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode
- X-Istence 13y agoTech oriented indeed. You know, all of the Open source IRC channels on Freenode are a good start. IRC is nothing like you've described, at least to me.
- peterwwillis 13y agoIRC is nothing like you've described User hderms didn't describe them, I did. And I can show you hundreds of thousands of channels like I describe, on most popular IRC networks (Freenode is a tiny network in comparison). Also, I challenge you to show me proof of intelligent discourse in any Freenode channel. It's simply not easy, especially in a channel with 5 or more active participants in conversations. Try taking your time to make intelligent points and either people get bored with you or your points get lost in the scrollback.