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Re: lamers on IRC
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Colin Baxter |
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Re: lamers on IRC |
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Mon, 23 May 2022 11:51:26 +0100 |
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>>>>> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> * Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> [2022-05-23 00:22]:
>> One problem with IRC is the presence of lamers, luckily this
>> problem can be solved easily with technology starting with the
>> IRC client. Today I learned how to do this with my client, ERC:
> 😥️ Emacs channel for years has no moderators who moderate by
> common sense and police the channel for good behavior, there are
> no special rules, and those policies displayed like to avoid
> discrimination and asshatery will be quickly broken by those few
> dominating over larger group of people there.
> And people participating, often few hundreds of them may think and
> get opinion that rude behavior is acceptable -- no it is not
> normal, there are many occurences of unfriendly and abusively
> dominating behavior.
> Some of alpha monkey dominators will switch from channel to
> channel after the user and even complain why did that user go to
> other channel. They go because of abusive behavior.
> Public come to #emacs for Emacs reasons. They will often find
> narcissists' behavior and abuse. Insults and mockery are common.
> #emacs IMHO is not GNU governedchannel, rather it is GNU project
> related channel, IMHO, is also not moderated by GNU Kind
> Communication Guidelines.
> This is appearing as generalization, as I do not want to mention
> the dominators' nick names.
> Some people complain on Libreplanet mailing list on unwelcoming
> environments in social networks around free software. I can really
> understand such complaints, and I like to point to friendly
> digital places for help. IMHO #emacs channel on IRC is such place
> due to few dominating parties. This is because dominators live in
> their own digital world behind the computer, forgetting about the
> human beings on other side of the world.
I agree wholeheartily with the above. I tried #emacs but quickly gave
up and now never go there.
Best wishes,
Re: lamers on IRC, Thomas Lord, 2022/05/23