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I wouldn't say I "own" that channel in any respect, I'm just responsible for dragging it over from Freenode during the exodus... we've got the same same staff as we did before the move and I'm not even the "founder" according to ChanServ.

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Just to clarify: are you active/a mod in that channel? Now I’m curious how the GP got the idea you own it.

I am one of the more active channel ops, so it's not an unreasonable mistake to make.

Because I created the channel during the Freenode exodus to prevent it being poached and transferred ownership to Klange when a few people mentioned he was the person that should have it.

There are quite a lot of channels like that - the week I spent running around warning as many big projects as I could get hold of that there was clearly no way out seemed to help a lot, but of course there was still the problem of "who's actually online when the hammer drops to -execute- the planning people had done". It was kinda exhilerating watching practically the entire userbase move as one, but I'd really really rather not have to do it again :D

Still kind of amazes me that given the number of signatories I got nobody thought "hey, maybe this isn't going to work" but it turned into an excellent mutual support resource for those of us moving instead: https://gist.github.com/shadowcat-mst/998cea12794768bdb3da2d...

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