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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) by qpery on Sunday February 24, 2019 @02:37PM (#19240147)
>many users have bouncers that will sit in the channel the whole time

Then I know they're reading.

>and you have no idea who might be saving logs or where they might be publishing them

If I'm in a room with you nothing stops you from telling others what I've told you.

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) by lmm on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:20PM (#19240680)
> If I'm in a room with you nothing stops you from telling others what I've told you.

Sure, but I won't have a complete written record like an IRC log, and won't be able to credibly quote.

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) by gsich on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:35PM (#19240756)
how would one credibly quote on IRC? Isn't the chat log enough for you?
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) by lmm on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:02PM (#19247087)
My point is that chat logs make IRC a lot more "on the record" than in-person discussions in practice (even if not in theory). Anyone who's keeping a log can quote directly from it, and those quotes are credible (if nothing else, because the person posting them doesn't know who else was keeping a log and can call out inaccurate quotes).
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