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"There is a down-side to IRC which should be kept in mind. Over time, the people who will be most active in IRC will tend to be people whose only contribution t
by blasdel 17y ago
"There is a down-side to IRC which should be kept in mind. Over time, the people who will be most active in IRC will tend to be people whose only contribution to your project is being active in IRC. This is not necessarily a good thing."
- wmf 17y agoEnjoying my blog? :-) I always like watching links propagate through the Web.
- blasdel 17y agoYeah, and you just posted something I posted to HN to your blog :-) Your RSS feed is crap though -- linklogs shouldn't have permalinks to themselves in the <link> element -- put what you're linking to there.
- jacquesm 17y agoIt's hard to get people to be active, and 'contributing' by talking instead of by coding is very tempting. Wikipedia is also suffering of this to some extent, there are plenty of pages where the 'talk' section is several times the size of the article, with the endless splitting of hairs about minor syntactical or semantical details. Still, there are community projects where IRC has been a very successful community tool, some of them wouldn't ever have gotten off the ground without it. Overall I think the benefits outweigh the downsides, but having a good set of moderators in a channel I think is the key difference to where it worked and where it became a distraction.