It’s an interesting example of balancing the need for clear rules without having so much specificity that it’s easy to game.
Yeah, that was one of the major goals in the channel rules. Both the long and the short versions are explicit that if you come up with a way to be a pain in the ass that we haven’t already thought of, we’ll still kick you, even though it’s not already in the rules. :P If you’re curious, the long version is here and the short version is here. I didn’t compose all of them but I did write them. (That is, I didn’t choose everything that went in them, but I picked most of the words and put them on a page.)
but nothing about how long it went on or how it worked out in the long run.
It’s still going on, in #xkcd-signal on Foonetic. I don’t follow the channel actively right now, but my experience when I was there and the channel’s continuing reputation are that it has high-quality conversations at very long intervals. That is, it tends to be quiet for long periods, but the conversations that do happen are relatively free of noise.
Yeah, that was one of the major goals in the channel rules. Both the long and the short versions are explicit that if you come up with a way to be a pain in the ass that we haven’t already thought of, we’ll still kick you, even though it’s not already in the rules. :P If you’re curious, the long version is here and the short version is here. I didn’t compose all of them but I did write them. (That is, I didn’t choose everything that went in them, but I picked most of the words and put them on a page.)
It’s still going on, in #xkcd-signal on Foonetic. I don’t follow the channel actively right now, but my experience when I was there and the channel’s continuing reputation are that it has high-quality conversations at very long intervals. That is, it tends to be quiet for long periods, but the conversations that do happen are relatively free of noise.