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In certain help channels, for complicated questions, you would be amazed with the quality of the responses you get from people just hanging out in channel. Being able to paste code and work with someone in real time to troubleshoot bugs has saved my bacon probably hundreds of times by now. Great examples of this are #jquery, #postgresql and #perl on freenode.

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Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I've run in to a lot of obnoxious, self-righteous, and close minded people on #perl, both on freenode and efnet.

I've had excellent experiences with the rest of the technical channels I've tried on freenode, however.

As far as non-technical chat goes, I prefer undernet. Efnet has slowly moved to the bottom of my list as it seems to be an asshole magnet.

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