Re: packets in #packets and ^%^&^*( censors

_grenfell_ <*grenfell__at__grenfell_.yahoo.invalid*> · Tue, 06 Aug 2002 04:21:04 -0000

"Opinions conflict as to whether or not this is some form of high 
art..."

What? This more like seeing who can make the smelliest fart.  I can't 
even see the people in charge of #packets thinking this is "some form 
of high art."

Adam Bishop

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., ZAMM_Phaedrus <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In quizbowl_at_y..., thefool75 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > It appears that since most packets are now read in #packets as 
> > opposed to #quizbowl (which is understandable) that certain 
> > individuals have taken it upon themselves to ban anyone with 
> > roadrunner access from participating.  How and why this arbiter(s) 
> > was chosen is beyond me but I'm pissed off.  If there's an 
> > explanation I'd like to know it.
> 
> The order of events follows roughly along this line:
> 
> 1) Yahoo moves to a stupid chat system.
> 2) Someone suggests IRC.
> 3) A regular IRC chatroom is set up on Undernet. People use it.
> 4) Some people claim that other people abuse ops in the chatroom and 
a 
> movement is register the channel #quizbowl set to create permanent 
> ops.
> 5) Because Undernet is being "renovated," and channel services are 
not 
> available and there is a desire to do this quickly in order to 
create 
> permanent ops and take ops out of the hands of certain people, or to 
> avoid occasions when no one has ops, and the chatroom is migrated to 
> the server irc.wewt.org and registered.
> 6) Throughout this, while some come to the chatoom primarily to play 
> questions, others want to just chat with quizbowlers about things 
not 
> necessarily quizbowl. 
> 7) The flexibility of IRC allows people to form and exist in 
multiple 
> rooms. People had already made use of this ability to create ad hoc 
> rooms with names including #packets on a temporary basis. 
> 8) One room permanently registered by people is #packets. Others 
> registered at various times include #hugefromtugging. #packets is 
> registered by certain people who feel that #quizbowl was moved to 
> irc.wewt.org by someone as part of an extended hissy fit at not 
being 
> granted ops by others when the room was more first-come-first-serve. 
> #packets is treated as more of a clubhouse and, despite its name, 
> involves much non-packet conversation. 
> 9) As the most populated permanent room besides #quizbowl, #packets 
> becomes the de facto place for reading packets despite it not really 
> being the "official" place for packets to be read.
> 10) The people behind #packets attempt to become a parody of 
> #quizbowl, with irrelevant topics being set, and examples of ops 
> abuse. Opinions conflict as to whether or not this is some form of 
> high art or a raunchy, personal wankfest, the same as some say about 
> South Park.
> 
> That's hitting most of the high points. Others who have been there 
are 
> free to add, elaborate, or dispute these points, but this is one 
> possible interpretation of events.
> 
> --Anthony de Jesus