2010/9/13 Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, threethirty <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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