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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by chris_wot on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:28PM (#11300821)
Seriously, what is going on here? It seems any and every comment about IRC or XMPP is being downvoted to oblivion.

If someone is astroturfing, I suggest you stop immediately.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by Karunamon on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:13PM (#11301084)
Because such comments are at this point inane and uninteresting. As has been mentioned ad nauseum, Slack and friends are winning because IRC is a pain and lacks really basic creature comforts like offline messages and anything but text.

I'm downvoting them as I see them for this reason. Anyone saying "Why not IRC?" to the question of "Slack alternative?" is being willfully ignorant at this point.

Same goes to those who accuse people of astroturfing absent evidence other than "$ideaILike is being downvoted".

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by chris_wot on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:39AM (#11303956)
Only as inane and uninteresting as the comment you just posted.

You can't impute motives why someone might ask that question. You may feel it has been repeated ad nauseum but it's quite possible those asking the question haven't read the previous HN comments.

At this point, you come over as an arrogant jerk.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by Karunamon on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:28AM (#11304919)
Ask a silly question...
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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by chris_wot on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:51PM (#11315902)
... expect only jerks to answer?
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