Comments on: IRC Diplomacy: OFTC, Undernet, EsperNet, DALnet

By: thimbronion

thimbronion — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:24:33 +0000

PeterL: Fixed. There was an html escaping issue with the opening angle bracket on the nicks.

By: PeterL

PeterL — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:59:02 +0000

It would be nice if you had a name at the beginning of the lines, it makes it hard to figure out who is saying what. (Or combine multiple lines from the same person together)

By: Diana Coman

Diana Coman — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:57:21 +0000

Re their claims of "exposure" and "biggest network" and all that wank: you shouldn't let it just pass unchallenged, no. So go and collect some data + publish it for your own support if nothing else: have a client join some 10 networks + ALL their chans and let it log everything. Then run a script and see just how much actual conversation is going on anyway and where, you'll likely not even need anything more sophisticated than a count of words after excluding the join/part spam. For extra lulz you can ofc count separately that too and then when next challenged with that pompous stance, serve them a steaming plate with data+link and watch them go blue in the face (if they end up banning you as a result, all the better!)

Re timid, it usually gets cured with a lot of practice but you need to actually work on it and especially in the beginning quite consciously. It helps a lot if you prepare yourself better (see the data analysis above) so you *know* your ground is rock solid. Also, for starters, stop this very polite "I would like to" and state the naked, manly "I want ".

By: thimbronion

thimbronion — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:54:13 +0000

re: "timid" from #ossasepia: Yes! WTF am I afraid of here? Who cares if I piss off some admins of some dying networks?

> And do get your link right, that's not something you can keep botching esp as intro, wtf.

I've got to be more present when typing into IRC. It's very odd (to say the least) that I did that TWICE.

> Not really "are you interested" at all.

Yes! They don't have a choice in fact.

By: Diana Coman

Diana Coman — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:06:35 +0000

Not really "are you interested" at all. For one thing they *should* be interested or for the other it doesn't set you right there at all so don't do it. Better something along the lines: who should I talk to about this?

And do get your link right, that's not something you can keep botching esp as intro, wtf.