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IRC today is the opposite of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September. People who still use IRC are mostly well-mannered, skillful and welcoming of others, and things only seem to get better day-by-day

People who are unresponsive to email, Tweets and other means of communication can be very responsive on IRC.

More signal less noise, I quess.

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As an IRC OP on a server with mostly non-technical channels, I can guarantee you that people are not mostly well-mannered. They are welcoming of others though.

Yes, compared to what IRC was in the 90'ies - definitely. In the age of DLS the then common ping floods aren't as effective anymore ;-) While I'm idling about there in several channels like #citadel, it has become quiet there, and non technical channels seem to die out. I guess IRC has to less XML inside to be hip or commercialy supported nowadays. we'll see how long irssi keeps working ;-)

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