[Noisebridge-discuss] Should the NB board take action wrt IRC?

[Jeffrey Malone]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> If you need an individual cloak on freenode, they're pretty easy to get;
> no need to wait for Noisebridge to take action.  (The easiest way is to
> make a donation and get a supporter cloak, but if $10 is a hardship, you
> can bug a freenode staffmember for an unaffiliated one.)
>
> Wouldn't noisebridge cloaks run into the same kind of in-group/out-group
> issues that you raise with ops, below?

I think it would be nice to be able to offer cloaks ourselves.  As I'm
not speaking of putting restrictions on who gets them, I don't see it
being an in-group/out-group thing.  The host cloak doesn't give you
authority... in my view, it's not any different than putting a
Noisebridge sticker on your laptop.
Yes, there are alternatives though.

> It's not much of a burden for me to clean up the poop when the
> #noisebridge shitfest gets out of hand; I just need to find out that it
> needs doing, for which I have to depend on people who have more time and
> inclination to deal with the normal fecal level on channel to tell me.
>
> That said, I don't see any reason not to have some people with chanops;
> it's not much of a change from the current situation.
>
> If I've met you in person (or we know each other fairly well online),
> you know how to use irc, and you agree to be reasonably careful with the
> sharp nasty bits, drop me an email saying so and giving the necessary
> information and I'll consider adding chanops.

I'm not the most thrilled with a process that has you simply deciding
who should and should not have this authority... but whatever.  Go
ahead and add me to that list, please.

Jeffrey