GHC and the future of Freenode

[Chris Smith]

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 <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> On 19 May 2021, at 11:48 am, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> --
>         Viktor.
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