IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both (2021)

I agree with the sediment based on my experience. One work around I found was to have multiple identities on the IRC server since everyone's IP's were cloaked anyway.

I had a a persona for socializing, one for NetAdmin and one for the "sysadmin in the background", at times even arguing with my self out loud just for fun. I suppose that is self deprecating but it kept the social version of me out of the administration dynamics. Each persona has to use a different writing style and that was super easy barely an inconvenience as the NetAdmin is very terse, to the point and the Sysadmin just gets things done. Not that all this really mattered, as I am very anti-censorship. I only kicked or gzlined the most abusive people and servers.

There is a Part 2:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/16/bird/

Bit of a niche comparison, but I think this is what has kept the long-running /tg/station13 project (major branch of the open source video game Space Station 13) going. The administrator who owns the servers rarely interacts with the community or his own coders, and basically only maintains completely uncontroversial and mission-critical components of the project (like devops stuff). This of course keeps the drama within the community insulated from the running of the servers themselves.

https://tgstation13.org/

Is this the internet equivalent of “Don’t get high on your own supply”?

Or twitter.

Post from May 26, 2021.

As a long time IRC user being an oper is the uber status symbol: this is what you want. I suppose it’s not PC to tell people to fuck off and ban them but that’s exactly how you dealt with whiners “in the day”.