Stephen Thorne wrote: > On Feb 5, 9:02 am, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >>> • The list of ban'd person's names, the reason for banning, and the >>> name of admin who ban'd them, should be public. (irc already provides >>> means for this that allows admins to annotate in the ban list.) In >>> particular, if you are going to ban someone by ip address, make sure >>> the person's handle (or preferably real life name), be listed together >>> with it. (again, this needs not elaborate. A single sentence will do, >>> e.g. “repeatedly asking same question”, “continously raising >>> controversial issues”, “refused to use paste bin when requested” will >>> do. Again, be as precise in description as possible. For example, >>> “ban'd for trolling”, “annoying others”, are not a meaningful reason.) >> This is perhaps a little formal for something that (as far as I know) >> happens less than once a month. I am reluctant to start up any kind of >> bureaucracy around bannings unless they become too frequent (in which >> case your suggestions above seem reasonable). > > The current banlist lists 258 names. According to my logs there have > been 95 masks added to this list and 44 removals since October. This > is approximately 23 a month, or 3 every 4 days. 11 ops were active in > this action during this period. > > For reference, this is the 4th largest IRC channel on freenode > according to http://searchirc.com/search.php?SCHANS=1&SSORT=SIZE&N=freenode > and the other large channels weigh in with 298 (gentoo), 9 > (archlinux), 14 (##C++), 280 (#ubuntu), 109 (#debian). > > We are hardly exceptional in the size of our list of people we have > excluded from the IRC community. > > On discussion with #archlinux it seems that the reason archlinux has > so few on their list is because they use chanserv's AKICK feature, > which means the name isn't kept in the IRC client accessable banlist, > and is only put there temporarily when the excluded user returns by > chanserv. > Thanks, Stephen.
It's fairly obvious I am not an active IRC user, isn't it? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
