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A comment on IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both.
I've been incredibly blessed with a staff which has little ego to bruise, so it can work (small community though, only 500 users on the network).
But the temptation to reach for tools to crush "trolls" is very much there, even for me. What helps is running unprivileged.
You wouldn't run your computer as root, don't talk on your network as an operator. It's too easy to do something in a fit of rage..
That extra step to get to the banhammer lets the cooler heads prevail.
I've been incredibly blessed with a staff which has little ego to bruise, so it can work (small community though, only 500 users on the network).
But the temptation to reach for tools to crush "trolls" is very much there, even for me. What helps is running unprivileged.
You wouldn't run your computer as root, don't talk on your network as an operator. It's too easy to do something in a fit of rage..