#61: nick change policy is incongruent with other #fedora- channel conventions
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Reporter: duffy | Owner:
Type: feedback | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 14
Version: | Severity: Neutral
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by pfrields):
Replying to [comment:3 pfrields]:
Replying to [comment:2 duffy]:
> I think it's not really feasible to change the nick changing
conventions across all #fedora- channels, let alone the many upstream
development channels I'm a part of. It's just not going to happen and is
not a viable solution if you want folks involved in other areas of Fedora
to participate in #fedora. It seems to serve to maintain the insular
status quo.
This is an important point, because one of the most frequent issues
#fedora helpers have stated repeatedly in the past is that they would like
more participation there (and thus sharing of the load).
''...snip...''
> I do not understand why nick changes can't be silenced, either with a
channel setting or individual's client settings if they are that
distracting.
''...snip...''
In some clients they can be silenced (like irssi); others aren't as
smart. Fedora friends who frequent a substantial number of channels do
have a right to be able to inform their collaborators and teammates of
their status in some way. This can either be done with a nick change
(tom_afk) or by setting an away message (/away Back tomorrow 2011-07-01).
Abusing either is annoying and should be dealt with firmly but fairly.
Disallowing both is unfair to people who are active collaborators.
I did think of another possibility. Perhaps people who are frequent
collaborators elsewhere and live on many other #fedora* channels could
open up a separate connection for #fedora that uses a different nick, and
set that connection not to use any away or nick change messages. While
that would be a pretty big imposition on new users, from what I gather
most of those folks are not going to fit into this category of sitting in
many #fedora* channels.
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