IrcGuidelinesProposed

[Anthony Yarusso]

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Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On za, 2007-09-01 at 01:48 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
>
>> I stumbled across this today while looking at the recent wiki edits list:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcGuidelinesProposed
>>
>> It's either written by or merely last edited by aoirthoir (of
>> #ubuntu-offtopic), and while I don't agree 100% with it (particularly
>> some bits like "Those, like these, are not rules, but only guidelines.
>> Still, both sets of guidelines will help promote a friendly atmosphere
>> in the channels.", as the Freenode Channel Guidelines are suggestions
>> to channel owners, whereas Freenode also maintains hard and fast rules
>> for the network under Freenode Policy, and channel owners are free to
>> enforce their own rules in addition to guidelines), he actually makes
>> a handful of reasonable points that I think are worth a look and some
>> discussion.  Perhaps a compromise of the best qualities of both this
>> and the existing page would be worthwhile.  Thoughts?
>
> The IRC council are responsible for maintaining the guidelines, not
> random trolls like Aoirthoir. Hence I reverted his edits to the
> IrcGuidelines document. Apparently he now put them on a separate
> wikipage.
>
> If he has something to discuss with us, he should do so by discussing.
> Not by editing wikipages he should not be editing.
Ah, I was not aware that he had edited the real page first - that
sounds more like the aoirthoir I've seen before (I was a bit surprised
before by how civil it looked, relatively speaking).

Anyway, certainly agreed the IRC Council maintains such things.  I
guess it's still worth those folks considering the points made,
although some of the credit I was willing to give is lost now.
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