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Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by Zetice on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:16PM (#36925836)
Sorry but this passive voice over a completely open system is intolerable. Fix it yourself.

It annoys me.

Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by eropple on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:50PM (#36926922)
Let's put it as simply as possible, because there's the genuine possibility that you don't understand, rather than are just being an acrimonious troll.

You wouldn't be Linux-on-the-desktopping as hard as you are if you didn't want people to use it. As such, if you, as an advocate of a thing, want other people to use it when the alternative is "continue using other things", then the least effective response is "fix it yourself".

I don't need to fix it. I have alternatives that already do what I want. If you want to hector people to use the thing you want them to do, then you had best come correct.

Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by Zetice on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:41PM (#36927290)
If you have everything you need, why did you complain?

And insults do you no good here. Would any of the hateful words you wrote above mean anything at all to you if I wrote them?

Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by boredtofears on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:49PM (#36927331)
> If you have everything you need, why did you complain?

Because it’s a forum for discussing technology? Why critique anything with that logic. You must be trolling.

Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by Zetice on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:20PM (#36927498)
Either you have a concern, in which case you can and should do something about it, or you don’t and just commented for no reason.
Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by boredtofears on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:47PM (#36927320)
> Passive voice over a completely open system

??

What does that even mean?

Re:IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol by Zetice on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:39PM (#36927590)
I wrote it while pooping, I meant demanding someone else do for you what you can do for yourself.