not quite an addict... but

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4 total messages Started by Bob Donahue Sun, 01 Nov 1992 19:28

Author: Bob Donahue
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 19:28

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	I don't think I was ever an addict, per se, but I'm sick
and tired of the dumbing-down trend that IRC has taken over the 
last 4 years.


	Remember when:

	* people discussed things instead of mindless e-babble
	* there were no bots
	* when there was a limit of 10 on a channel
	* channels had numbers?

	* IRC was useful

	I do - it's too bad it devolved into the noisy din of
non-conversations it is now.  I miss the people who I used to talk
to and meet there.  (Most of them gave up LONG before me.)

	But - 0 days, 0 hours, 10 minutes.

	There's plenty of other things I can do than waste time
watching the octo-hourly "Age check" "Gender Check" "Geo check"
"mother's maiden name check" and all the "e-giggling" that goes
on.  I have enough contact with people who hate, bigots, troublemakers,
etc. that I need to help out trace problems on #gblf.  

	I'm sure the real world can use my new-found energy creatively.

	One last question though:  how *do* you make text underlined?
(I know about reverse video, but never botherted to look up underlining...)

BBC, taking Waldeaux with him

Re: not quite an addict... but

Author: Greg Lindahl
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 23:45

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In article <1992Nov1.192812.10359@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:

>	I don't think I was ever an addict, per se, but I'm sick
>and tired of the dumbing-down trend that IRC has taken over the 
>last 4 years.

I'm not so sure it's a dumbing-down trend. Even in the "good old
days", channels with lots of people tended to have a higher percentage
of meaningless chatter ("hi", "bye", "let's move to a channel <10")
than channels with fewer people. Since IRC is now bigger (not better),
this is a bad trend.

I'm not sure why it became much harder to meet interesting people,
though. Seems to be some sort of group insanity: you take one or two
freshmen, and they can be interesting people. You take 10, and they
turn into an insane mob of clueless dweebs, self-reinforcing each
other's antisocial behavior.

In any case, the bloom is off the rose.

Re: not quite an addict... but

#11

Author: Bob Donahue
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 15:22

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gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:

>>	I don't think I was ever an addict, per se, but I'm sick
>>and tired of the dumbing-down trend that IRC has taken over the 
>>last 4 years.

>I'm not so sure it's a dumbing-down trend. Even in the "good old
>days", channels with lots of people tended to have a higher percentage
>of meaningless chatter ("hi", "bye", "let's move to a channel <10")
>than channels with fewer people. Since IRC is now bigger (not better),
>this is a bad trend.

	At the time "33" was pretty high-signal to noise... it didn't
get really stoopid until #gblf.  And even then it did and still
does have its moments.  The spacing just gets wider and wider.

>I'm not sure why it became much harder to meet interesting people,
>though. Seems to be some sort of group insanity: you take one or two
>freshmen, and they can be interesting people. You take 10, and they
>turn into an insane mob of clueless dweebs, self-reinforcing each
>other's antisocial behavior.

	Doesn't ahve to be freshmen, and there are lots of interesting
people.  But unless you went to a totally secret +spim channel
you ran a very good chance that someone would ruin anything that
got started.  I suppose there is in my case some degree of terroriality:
having been there for 4 years, it weas hard watching the tenor of the 
channel I was mostly on get noisier and noisier... sort of
like an e-Alzhiemers.  People I got used to seeing got fed up and
left, and while new people came aboard, the %age of intersting
ones was much less than the %age of noisy ones.

	Sigh.  0 months, 0 days, 20 hours.

ex-BBC
>
>In any case, the bloom is off the rose.

Re: not quite an addict... but

#12

Author: Carl von Loesch
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 22:39

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rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
>	One last question though:  how *do* you make text underlined?
>(I know about reverse video, but never botherted to look up underlining...)

Look! Look!

The coding culprit in person is here to answer your plea.
Underlines are coded with ctrl-V's.

Somebody else also added BOLDface - with ctrl-_.

What's next.. cursive?  Just kidding.

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