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Thu, 17 Jul 2003
IRC Channel rules
I've never been a big IRC user, but that's slowly changing as I get more involved in projects that have an IRC culture. Certainly I got a big immersion in that culture as OSCON. So Charles Miller's posting on IRC Channels is very timely for me.
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Here's the counter-intuitive part: having a clear command structure and defined rules creates more conflict than not having them. People, instead of dealing with problems between each other, take them to the arbitrating body. People don't compromise when they can ask the command structure for a black and white decision. When the strict rules and command structure go away, people have no recourse but to settle their differences one way or another.The patterns not new, but it's interesting to see how many places it pops up.
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