What did I do wrong?

Benjamin Rubin bnrubin at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 28 13:15:58 UTC 2009


ShorTie,

Jo-Erlend said pretty much what I was going to say so I'll keep this short.

Regardless of how you think you are being treated in any of our channels
there is no excuse to reciprocate with the attitude that you have thus far
exhibited.

Benjamin Rubin
https://launchpad.net/~bnrubin



On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> wrote:

> When on IRC, you should never paste like that, but use a pastebin
> instead, as OttifantSir recommended. This is important, because IRC is
> a limited medium and when there are more than a thousand users in the
> channel, it can become completely impossible to follow conversations
> if people send too many messages.
>
> You should also try to collect your messages into a long one,
> explaining the problem well, rather than splitting it up and "using
> enter as punctuation".
>
> It's quite normal to kick users when flooding the channel with
> messages from a paste or similar, in order to "protect" the channel.
> Since many users have clients that automatically rejoin when they're
> kicked, it's also customary to set a ban. You would normally get a
> warning and an explanation in a private message though.
>
> Reading your attached piece of log, I wouldn't be too upset if I were
> you. Next time, you'll use a pastebin instead of pasting into the
> channel, and everyone will be happy.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
>
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