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A comment on IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both.

Re:IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both by jmercouris on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:35AM (#27301762)
What are the qualifications for such advice? The author presents it as hard fact, yet does not substantiate their claim.

Many administrators of IRC servers participate in the very same community in which they administer.

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Re:IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both by NateEag on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:57AM (#27301937)
Human nature.

We have a very hard time not abusing power we have access to.

If you run the server, you will always have the temptation to use your admin powers to control the social situation.

(... which, as freenode is showing us, actually means you'll just destroy the social situation.)

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