An Irony of IRC

Posted on July 4, 2002 in IRC/Chat

The nastiness of many channels is what holds these communities together and also prevents them from becoming mainstream. The crazies love chaos. The rest venture in once or twice, the thick-headed and the half crazy stay a little longer, and then stay away for good. A few determined people form channels of their own. The mark of an IRC channel’s success is not numbers, but how long it survives. A clique can hold a channel open for a very long time, though few care to visit it.