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One of my biggest pet peeves is calling a company and being tossed into a conversation with a friendly robot voice that can never seem to understand what I say. Usually by the third time I am shouting NO!, I tend hang up and see if there is another way to get ahold of someone. I am fairly new to archlinux, but so far I have registered at the forum, waited for an email, clicked the link and posted a few times. Then I noticed a mistake in the wiki that I wanted to correct, so I registered, waited for the email, clicked the link and added two letters to the page.
Now I am trying to get help on the IRC channel. I am no IRC expert, but I have received help from or conversed with the Ubuntu community, the iphone dev team and a few others and found the experience easy and pleasant. At the #archlinux channel, however, I find myself being forced to have a conversation with a machine. I had to learn to register a nickname and password.
Then I tried to register. I'm already logged in!! Yay! NO.. I need to wait for an email.. that hasn't come. I can't ask a question or say hi, like I could in every other channel, oh no. Instead I sit here waiting watching everyone else have happy conversations, waiting for an email, wondering why nicksrv doesn't want to talk to me.
**Edit: Mistakenly put #archwiki instead of #archlinux
Last edited by jimmy the saint (2009-04-16 02:12:36)
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You put in your email wrong, or something of that nature. However, you should take this up with freenode.
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Heh. Wait until you meet phrik.
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This makes me feel better.
>nickserv< identify ****
-NickServ- You are now identified for tru19p.
<tru19p> hello?
* #archlinux :Please register with services and use the IDENTIFY command (/msg nickserv help) to speak in this channel
I registered with the right email address. I double and triple checked that.
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At the #archwiki channel, however, I find myself being forced to have a conversation with a machine. I had to learn to register a nickname and password.
FTR, it's the Freenode network (not ArchLinux) that enforces this requirement in order to reduce spam and other abuse.
Are you familiar with our Forum Rules, and How To Ask Questions The Smart Way?
BlueHackers // fscanary // resticctl
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IMO, the forums are much more "user-friendly". And I use IRC a lot.
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Odd... I don't ever remember registering with an email address... Besides, anybody using the freenode server has to register. I don't think there are any bots on the actual Archlinux channel.
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This is a whine, and should not continue. Registration is required in #archlinux. If you don't want to register, don't use IRC.
It's that simple.
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