Re: GHC and the future of Freenode

Viktor, Sorry you had a bad experience. Perhaps it will help to know that these bans are automatically done by bots to prevent the channel from being flooded by nefarious users. That you were caught by it was just a false positive because you triggered the flooding detection. It doesn't mean anyone was upset at you or didn't want to talk to you. When I've seen it happen in #haskell in the past, the person involved has been able to immediately rejoin and resume the conversation. Chris On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:08 PM Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

On 19 May 2021, at 11:48 am, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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I personally vote for irc. Perhaps via Libera.

Perhaps I'm too much of an IRC noob, but I still found it it rather surprising to be banned from libera.chat (my IP is blacklisted) for pasting a 25-line build script for building GHC via hadrian on FreeBSD into the #ghc channel.

This was in response to a discussion about issues with the bindist, how the port is built, ... and while perhaps I'm expected to use a paste bin, the abrupt ban was rather a harsh response.

The ban appears to have been "temporary", an hour or so later I am able to reconnect, but this does not leave a good impression.

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