IRC moderators

[Adam Membrey]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:53 pm, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> to, 2005-04-28 kello 08:16 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker kirjoitti:
> > On wo, 2005-04-27 at 23:29 -0500, Jesse Haubrich wrote:
> > > The crowd is getting increasingly juvenile.
> >
> > Really?? Since when? I spend a lot of time there and there it's no more
> > juvenile than before. Every busy IRC channel will sometimes be off-topic
> > and have arguments, but that's normal...
>
> I have to agree with Jesse on this. I went to
> http://irclog.workaround.org/ to see what's been going on in #ubuntu
> lately and found quite a many comments that most people would find very
> offensive. Maybe this is normal on some IRC channels, but I can see no
> reason why #ubuntu should be like that. The channel is a part of the
> Ubuntu community and in my opinion the Ubuntu Code of Conduct should
> apply there too.
>
> I have included a few recent excerpts from the channel here. They are
> from  23.00 yesterday to 6.00 this morning.
>
> Ari
>
>
> WARNING! VERY OFFENSIVE TEXT AHEAD
>
> ................
>
> [...]
> who here is offended by the topic of ana_l se_x?
> [...]
> 'cause no one will answer this question: have you ever had another
> person's pen_is in your as_s?
> [...]
> I have personally never had a dic_k up my as_s.
> [...]
> if linux|ubuntu!=but_t se_x...
> [...]
> if i asked if you had ever attempted reproduction with a member of the
> opposite se_x, via geni_tal-to-geni_tal interaction.. well, what do you
> think about that?
> [...]
> hel_l fu_cking yes, the last chick i fu_cked couldn't walk for a week
> [...]
> 60% of americans have broadband. everywhere else is a barren,
> practically lifeless wasteland.. but i'm sure you knew that
> [...]
> on top of that, there better be some japanese bit_ches vomitting on
> eachother
> [...]
> vomitting on eachother, in a bath tub.. then they scoop some of the
> floating bits of an unidentifiable fish.. which they eat
> [...]
> also, the one where the dude is laying on his stomach, and a woman with
> high-heels is stomping on his balls
> [...]
> did you have se_x with them, [xxxxxxx]?
> [...]
> "does it really matter if she gives good head?"
> [...]
> "fu_cking as_shole doing 50 in a neighborhood"
> [...]
> i hate asian midgets
> ....
> [replying to himself] i certainly hope the asian midgets who frequent
> this channel were not offended
>
> ...................

See, now comments like that are inexcusable, there's random comments and OT 
topics, but #ubuntu is a family channel...users like that should be 
perm-banned >:(

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