> What's the solution then? Having a more interactive venue to > coordinate development activities is a really nice thing, particularly > with such a sparse group. For individuals folks have personality > conflicts with, /ignore is a wonderful thing. Of course that doesn't > help the newbies. > > -eric
people seem to have found a solution by creating smaller channels with a particular purpose. the v9fs developer channel is an example, do you think it works? others have made attempts to diffuse flamewars to an off-topic channel too, but i have no idea how well that worked out. nobody goes to #plan9 anymore expecting to do any serious work either, so the problem kind of fixed itself, except, as you say, for the newbies. #plan9 == #plan9advocacy (and if you mention browsers there you get nuked!)
