<story><title>Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasengan</author><text>The policy page you listed said no spamming. Your blog complaint says you spammed.</text></item><item><author>hlandau</author><text>Freenode broke their own policies to do this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freenode.net&amp;#x2F;policies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freenode.net&amp;#x2F;policies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. Topical channels expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for the channel has joined it.&lt;p&gt;##hntop is a topical channel, since it begins with ##.</text></item><item><author>plorntus</author><text>Eh I feel as though you relinquished the channel the second you essentially shut it down. Why would freenode or any IRC server want to just keep a channel that is unused except to advertise a different server? I would understand more if it was some sort of specific channel that the name was clearly exclusively yours but its rather generic and a bot that many people here could also maintain.&lt;p&gt;Strikes me as sort of &amp;#x27;domain squatting&amp;#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soneil</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s going to fly.&lt;p&gt;People are concerned that you don&amp;#x27;t have the community&amp;#x27;s best interests at heart. Your actions say you don&amp;#x27;t have the community&amp;#x27;s best interests at heart.&lt;p&gt;All this lawyering corpspeak means nothing when your actions don&amp;#x27;t back it up.&lt;p&gt;If you want to prove us wrong, walk the walk.&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;p&gt;Looking at the list of top10 channels[0], several of them have such notices in their topics.  If this takeover was policy, can we assume you&amp;#x27;ll do the same to ##linux?  Or is it a very selective policy only to be enforced when you have a personal interest or believe you can get away with it?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;netsplit.de&amp;#x2F;channels&amp;#x2F;?net=Freenode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;netsplit.de&amp;#x2F;channels&amp;#x2F;?net=Freenode&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasengan</author><text>The policy page you listed said no spamming. Your blog complaint says you spammed.</text></item><item><author>hlandau</author><text>Freenode broke their own policies to do this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freenode.net&amp;#x2F;policies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freenode.net&amp;#x2F;policies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. Topical channels expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for the channel has joined it.&lt;p&gt;##hntop is a topical channel, since it begins with ##.</text></item><item><author>plorntus</author><text>Eh I feel as though you relinquished the channel the second you essentially shut it down. Why would freenode or any IRC server want to just keep a channel that is unused except to advertise a different server? I would understand more if it was some sort of specific channel that the name was clearly exclusively yours but its rather generic and a bot that many people here could also maintain.&lt;p&gt;Strikes me as sort of &amp;#x27;domain squatting&amp;#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spinax</author><text>&amp;quot;This channel has moved to Liberachat, effective immediately: irc.libera.chat ##hntop&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You and I have very, very different definitions of spam. I see a guidepost giving me direction.</text></comment>