"Real nice channel you have here...."

[unixronin]

"Real nice channel you have here.  It'd be a shame if anything happened to it."

You know you're an asshole when you're so offensive you can base an extortion racket on getting people to pay you to stay out of an IRC channel.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, what you have to understand is that much of Undernet #callahans is a bit dysfunctional in the first place. There are many people there who hold the opinion that Using /ignore Is Bad, because, well, /ignoring someone who's being a deliberately offensive troll and intentionally trying to disrupt the channel and stir up trouble between other patrons is, like, rude. Abusers Have Rights Too, or something like that.

There were several reasons most of the current Freenode #callahans patrons left Undernet. One was the appalling instability of Undernet at the time; we were tired of constant netsplits and as much as twenty minutes lag from one "side" of the channel to the other. But another one was that there had come to be so many bleeding hearts in channel it had become politically impossible to boot some troll who was being deliberately offensive (yet god forbid anyone, however calm and reasonable, mention a subject that any of the bleeding hearts in channel thought politically incorrect).

See our FAQ for more on the above. (http://co.ordinate.org/callahans/faq.html)