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Revision as of 20:45, 20 April 2008 by Wizardman (talk | contribs) (→Take admin decisionmaking to Wiki)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Future of the IRC admin channel?
It's been a year. The IRC admin channel is still criticized for group think and formation of ad-hoc admin actions, the recent one just a week ago. What should be done with it? Is it producing more heat than light?
Business as usual
Take admin decisionmaking to Wiki
- But do not remove the channel, which is useful to get a quick second opinion or sanity check. J Milburn (talk) 20:07, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- The channel, 25% of the time is extremely helpful, 70% of the time is friendly discussion without all the trolling and nonsense of other channels, and it is incredibly rare that such incidents happen, then for some unknown reason, people blame the channel rather than the admin who did the action. Any admin who thinks IRC is a substitute for on-wiki discussion needs a slap upside the head and possibly a suspension from the channel. Mr.Z-man 20:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- What Mr.Z said. Wizardman 20:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Scrap it
- I still don't know of any substantive positive thing coming from IRC. Some people still haven't learned that the bad block decisions they make via IRC empower those who are at the receiving end. Grandmasterka 19:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- Not against it in principle, but sick of the endless drama. -- Naerii 20:03, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Other reforms
- Keep the channel but discourage its use except for very urgent matters. Use a public channel for chit-chat. If logs are not already available to all admins they should be. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 20:31, 20 April 2008 (UTC)