Forum:Huge problems on the IRC

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KrytenKoro - Pinocchio with his nose attached to the trigger of a rifle, which points at his face as he says, "I want to live!" TALK - This. WHAT. THE. SMEG. The part that galls me isn't that someone broke the rules, it's that the ops ganged up on the person that reported it, as per the rules which the ops pretend to follow. Quite honestly, I'm disgusted with the ops who were present. Between this and the lack of fixes to the bot, I think the wiki should disown the IRC thread. If the IRC and the people "running" it are going to continue to create a cesspool, I will fight against our wiki sponsoring it.

NinjaSheik - All of this might have started with a lie...But I'm really am glad that I could meet you... TALK - One day, the light-it will be ours, and it will bring us together. Til then, I'll be in your heart... Wait, KrytenKoro. I know I'm a normal user here and all, but the thing is...Well, the only reason we gained the IRC Channel because of the many edits on talkpages that slows down the Recent Changes. If you're disgusted with the ops that are present, then perhaps new ops are in order. If we take down the IRC Channel, everyone will start using their talkpages again and it will slow down the Recent Changes. Maybe the recent ops have outgrown their position and needs to step down. I suggest that we chose new ops to manage IRC. Ones that will not lose their temper and break the rules.

KrytenKoro - "It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living." TALK - I'm not suggesting taking down the IRC. I'm suggesting that we remove all the notices telling our readers "Hey, we have an IRC, and here's the rules we follow to make sure everyone enjoys themselves!" if it's a filthy lie.

I advised Saph about the entire issue. The main issue here is fear, since the person involved is a KHW admin. Now, I'm letting her off, because I'm sure she'll safeguard herself. But the whole point now is sensitivity. We should be able to poke other users regarding this. If we can't, then there's no point of creating the channel. It's PG-rated, and not only because there are kids : there are some who firmly abstain from all impure pleasures. Me included. Now, I shall be e-mailing two of the admins the text that I have gathered as backing evidence to Kryten's link. Now, to sum it all up : every user should be able to warn, and every user, likewise, should be able to retain a decent bit of sensitivity. Helping others always comes before asking others for help. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 01:52, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

NinjaSheik - All of this might have started with a lie...But I'm really am glad that I could meet you... TALK - One day, the light-it will be ours, and it will bring us together. Til then, I'll be in your heart... Sesitivity? That's kinda hard to retain, especially when angered.

LegoAlchemist - They changed "Snipe Magnet" to "Magnet Grab"? Who's translating this game, 4kids? TALK - Friendships are in direct contravention of mercenary conduct as delineated in your contracts, and on a personal note: I am very, very, disappointed with you. I agree with pretty much everything, except for the whole disowning the channel bit. Getting rid of the IRC would be a very hypocritical move, as we pretty much cheer on the use of it and not User Space for conversations. It isn't the channel's fault, it's the channeleers. Ninja, sensitivity may be hard to retain, but letting it out through anger is pretty much smashing everything assuming good faith stands for. Like everything that has rules, as soon as any user enters the IRC, they are agreeing to follow them. That is always how it is universally. If users have dropped to a going so low as to just breaking them, and the users in charge OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER do barely anything to stop it, we have a serious problem on our hands. I talked this over with another op, and apparently I was "punished" because I was "making the whole matter worse". This person also said that I was punished because I wasn't an op, by stating that if an op had tried to improve the situation, it would have been a completely different matter entirely. If you ask me, that's just like smashing DTN's little "everyone is equal on the IRC" speech to smithereens. Have we really come so low as to this is how we act? Everyone should be able to be allowed to deal with matters like these, especially, as TNE puts it, give warnings. I don't want to be a part of the IRC if I can't have the same non-sysop powers as the ops have. By this, I mean everything except the whole kickbanhammer thing. Everything that we have tried to work for on the IRC has pretty much been destroyed, as well as DTN's aforementioned speech on us not needing ops. Let's face it. It is iminant. I need say nothing more on the matter.

So I sent the file to BK and Kryten. @Kryten : Thoughts on the whole matter ? Helping others always comes before asking others for help. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 02:54, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...03:30, July 9, 2010 (UTC) First and foremost: Based on that text, TroisNyx's reports, at least two previous texts I've read, heck, based on a message posted on my own talk page not yesterday, I see the need to remove at least one user from ops, if not from IRC. Hexed has continued to flout the rules after warnings from many folks; he seems to think he is above them. He could have easily created a new channel, invited interested chatters, and post whatever he pleased in there, as the PG rule is for the main room only. Instead, he chose to remain in the main room and continue to taunt LegoAlchemist and other users, as well as post inappropriate links or language. He has demonstrated on this and other occasions he is not mature enough to be an op. There are a couple of other ops I think we need a close look at, but we'll worry about this later. Next: Warning system for all. Can we trial run it for a week to see if it works? I think this is one of those things we have to experiment to see how it goes. I think the philosophy behind it is sound, but I want to see if it creates any issues. The idea of IRC was to create a safe environment where all users could enjoy talking about stuff without having to clog up the wiki; those people creating IRC issues are now doing just that by causing users to complain on our talk pages and forcing us to create forum topics like this. I've also wasted about twenty minutes of my free time dealing with this issue. I, nor any other admin, want to come on this wiki and deal with this. I think a lot more of us admin/ops are going to be cracking down on this in the future. Consider this your warning. I'm sure some folks wonder why I'm so keen on us remaining a PG-rated channel. I'm also sure most of you are aware of the average age of our users. Some posters have taken the attitude that "Kids & teens are going to see/do/say it anyway, so what's the harm?" You'd be surprised...I could tell stories from my time as a teacher, both from my room and other teachers. I won't tell them here, partially out of confidentiality, and partially because some are graphic enough I'd be breaking our own wiki rule (Irony, no?). But I can say that while it might not be life-altering, damage can be done, and it's not fun to deal with. So here's the deal: if a user doesn't like the IRC rules, they certainly don't have to post there. If they want to troll, swear, post crap, and so on, there are hundreds of thousands of channels and chatrooms across the internet you may choose to do so in. But not in this one.

KrytenKoro - "That's when we bumped into Hannity. Sean Hannity. See the thing about this dude is, at first he's fair, right? And you're like "Wow!" But then BOOM. The dude's balanced, too. And you're like, HOLY SHIT." TALK - I agree with everything TNE and BK have posted. I don't want us to make the IRC some fascist echo-chamber, but it simply can't be denied that we have some of our most frequent users both flouting and mocking the very basic rules we have. The rules are not arbitrary, and they do need to be enforced.

Guys, if rules are being broken, then use the ban-hammer. Simple. As. That. If EVEN MORE mods are required, I suggest someone consider me. I'm mod at #FFwiki, and in general, I'm a pretty decent mod. Adola 10:25, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

LotsoBearLover - Welcome to sunnyside! TALK - You've got a playdate with destiny!" I'm Kinda agree to Getting rid of some the current ops and trying some new ones...

Yuan Salve! — 11:53, July 9, 2010 (UTC) "Days that I have held, days that I have lost / days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms" Eradicating the notion that warnings are only important when given by ops would be helpful. Regular users are also responsible for their behaviour and the atmosphere in the channel, as well as educating newcomers about the rules of this channel. Perhaps they are unable to kick users, but there are certainly measures they can take, such as reporting offences and giving advice. "every user should be able to warn, and every user, likewise, should be able to retain a decent bit of sensitivity." This does, if I recall correctly, concur with the current IRC rules page. Flaming is not tolerated - or at least, it should not be. What constitutes flaming, however, varies from person to person, which I gather is part of the problem. The other issue is the double standard we have for old users and new. I doubt that behaviour such as Hexed's would be tolerated from a newcomer, but familiarity with him leads us to have greater tolerance for it as it's "just Hexed being Hexed". I am guilty of it. I'm sure there are others who treat it as simply an elaborate in-joke. This would be acceptable in most channels, but we've taken it upon ourselves to make this channel PG, and thus have added responsibility. I'm not overly impressed by the "think of the children" defence; what strikes me as important is ensuring that visitors to the channel enjoy their time there. Rather than censoring profanities simply because they are profanities, I would prefer to concentrate on preventing and (if there is no other alternative) punishing inappropriate behaviour when it causes offence to others. "[Hexed] has demonstrated on this and other occasions he is not mature enough to be an op." Hexed's op rights were removed several months ago. The current ops are Azul, MelodiousNature, Kate, DTN, Bluer, Yermom, Gamer, Xion4ever, SSC, Sapharus, Faethin, Kryten, Neumannz and myself. For the record, only Azul, Faethin and I are able to remove or give ops permanently, and Faethin is only there for maintenance purposes (I think). Any new op candidates will, and have, been considered by both Azul and myself after they've been brought to our attention. "If they want to troll, swear, post crap, and so on, there are hundreds of thousands of channels and chatrooms across the internet you may choose to do so in." Indeed, we have one already: it's called #lolkick. By the way, Kate, I believe you used a word we're no longer allowed to say on the channel - does that extend to the wiki ;)? On that note, I ask that the following words be removed from the swear filter: Ass Bastard Faggot Queer These words have meanings which are quite apart from their usage as profanities or slurs (particularly the last - not only does it mean "peculiar", it has also largely lost its negative connotations, being used by the LGBT community and academia). The term "badass" has also passed into general parlance.

On a side note, if they are removed from the swear filter, and if people use it in such a way that it can be largely construed to be a swear or a slur, we can drop the warning bombshell, right ? Helping others always comes before asking others for help. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 12:07, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

Yuan Salve! — 12:10, July 9, 2010 (UTC) "Days that I have held, days that I have lost / days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms" Certainly. Intent and tone is more of an issue than what is said.

Alright. ^_^ Now time to enforce all this. It's definitely going to be difficult to deal with the whole lot of them, but I think this is the umpteenth time that yelling on KHW over the IRC has been done. Guess it all boils down to good faith. Many of the ops aren't online frequently, so what do we do ? The only one who's on regularly (as I see) is Sapharus. Helping others always comes before asking others for help. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 12:15, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

LotsoBearLover - Welcome to sunnyside! TALK - You've got a playdate with destiny!" The only thing I don't understand is why you people Op people on the channel that are on only at Late Night..

First, the actual channel Operators are: Azul, Yuan, Bluer, Yermom, Gamer, myself, Melodious Nature, SSC, DTN, Kryten, Sapharus, Faethin, and Neumannz. (type /msg chanserv access #wikia-kingdomhearts list). Not all staff members have the channel operator status they were guaranteed, meaning staff members that do come on the channel (TNE, Kate, HoO [he rarely comes on]) are not able to perform the sometime necessary channel operator position. Another thing about the lack of Ops: look at the months these past problems have occurred in- June and July. For most of us, the months represent summer vacation, a time of relaxation and trips. This means that the activity of certain users (both channel operators and non channel operators) sometimes varies. For instance, DTN has taken a week or two off for personal reasons. Meanwhile, "old" users like Marexl show up on the channel. My point is that we kinda expected this; we know users will be in/out of the channel (and wiki) during these summer months. Also, we know certain users behave very differently around so-and-so. For example: Riku12 is normally a constant spammer on the IRC...when channel operators aren't around. However, Riku12 acts like the perfect user when channel operator, UnverzedRulez, is on. I don't see much point in electing new channel operators with the main reason being a lack for something we knew was going to happen. However, if the consensus sees it fit that new operators be elected, by all means do so. Also, if we see it fit to elect new operators I strongly encourage that the few non-Ops staff members recieve their "powers" first, then we judge from there if new operators are needed. Another solution to this is to give Central Wikia IRC users (#wikia) channel operator status on #wikia-kingdomhearts. Similar to Central Wikia admins having to block some vandals on here, Central Wikia users could fill the lacking channel operator position, if we choose so. To answer GB's question: We [channel operators], as well as regular users, do have a life outside of the wiki/IRC. As much as we'd like to be on and patrol both as much as we like, we simply cannot. Problems with the real life conflict with the wiki life, such as school, trips, family problems, and so on. Just how life is. To conclude this rant, most problems on the IRC are a result from immaturity and (for some) an ignorance to the rules. Most users on the channel (including those who created/played a part in the problems) know the rules or have seen the page a few times. Problem is the lack of self-discipline to obey them. Channel operators can rant about the rules and kick/ban as much as it is needed. However, it is the opposite of what we want to do. Each indvidual user makes the IRC what it is. If you constantly break the rules then the channel is chaos. If you follow the rules then the channel can be fun. The IRC channel is what you make it, channel operators can kick/ban every rule breaker but that is neither fun nor what we desire to do. I hate to say this since I know that those involved in/caused the problems can act much better than they've shown, but, if needed, we [channel operators] can ban every rule breaker without cease and make #wikia-kingdomhearts the strictist IRC channel there is. Heck, we can even dispose of the channel if needed. Think of this paragraph as a final warning? Sure, if that's how you view it. Xion4ever Who am I? — 13:49, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

Never in a thousand years would we wanna take out KHIRC....... provided that we get everyone to act according to conduct. Newcomers are all eager to adhere to the rules, why not the old timers too ? Helping others always comes before asking others for help. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 13:53, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

maggosh Strike backwards... — "That's a nice expression." You're terrified, aren't you? Indeed, we have one already: it's called #lolkick. The very same lolkick DTN kicked me from for doing what the channel was intended for?

Having seen all these issues, I really think some standards need to be put in place. Now don't go complaining and saying that it's a channel apart from KHIRC ; it involves KHW users. All of whom are persons. There are some things even the stars cannot tell me. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 14:27, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

LotsoBearLover - Welcome to sunnyside! TALK - You've got a playdate with destiny!" I have also Seen alot of user bashing on the IRC, and I think it's time to do something serious about it.

LegoAlchemist - They changed "Snipe Magnet" to "Magnet Grab"? Who's translating this game, 4kids? TALK - Friendships are in direct contravention of mercenary conduct as delineated in your contracts, and on a personal note: I am very, very, disappointed with you. If we ever plan to induct new operators, why not induct those who are on almost all day, such as maggosh, Adola, and (not to sound a jerk or something...) myself?

KingdomKeyDarkside - You both... think you can do whatever you want. Well, I'm sick of it. TALK - Go on, you just keep running. But I'll always be there to bring you back! We definitely need some new ops if this is happening. As Lego suggested, Adola, Maggosh, and himself would all be good candidates, as they remain level-headed all the time, from what I have seen.