On 13/09/10 23:44, Juan M. Rodriguez wrote:
2010/9/13 Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero(a)gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, threethirty <three(a)threethirty.us
<mailto:three@threethirty.us>> wrote:
<rant>
We should be actively taking down barriers to joining this
community not
erecting them.
</rant>
And how, exactly, is the painfully simple act of registering an IRC
nickname, taking all of a grand total of 30 seconds (if you type
slowly) as described in a prior e-mail, a barrier?
Get real, Justin. This is no more a barrier than signing the FAS; in
fact, it's probably less of one.
Further, there's a reason that unregistered nicks do not get into
#fedora, but I don't know what it is exactly. Does anyone have any
background on this?
Larry Cafiero
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The reason a lot of channels started the registration barrier is to stop
the number of spambots that suddenly arose on Freenode. Registered spam
bots are easier to mute or ban :)
I'm not sure if spam is still an issue in Freenode, I haven't seen one
in months.
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Also, Freenode's registration process has nothing to do with the Fedora
project, Red Hat or any other FOSS project on freenode. It is up to the
freenode board. Further, I think the registration process keeps a lot of
issues at bay, so as the requirement in the Fedora Project channels, to
be registered.
I have a suggestion to make though. If you believe it is hard for users
to join/register for freenode, why don't you make a few new wiki pages,
with GUI screen shots, to help new users ? IMHO that would be a better
approach to take, we could then link them from the get-help pages.
Regards,
Tristan
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