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

[Jeffrey Malone]

Hey Andy,

I see that you've added others to the ACL but haven't responded to my request..

/me pokes

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:06:14PM -0700, Jeffrey Malone wrote:
>> Group registration allows us to hand out host "cloaks" to anyone who
>> wants more anonymity on IRC.  The cloak changes their connecting
>> hostname from the host they're using to connect to something like
>> "freenode/noisebridge" -- it allows people to hide where they're
>> coming from when they are registered to nickserv.
>
> 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?
>
>> have expressed dismay with it.  When (not if) the channel gets taken
>> over again, I believe it would be best for people who are often around
>> to be able to handle the situation rather than harassing two people
>> who are busy and seemingly annoyed with the responsibility.
>
> 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.
>
> -andy
>