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Autor: wirelessduck
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A: devuan developers internal list
Asunto: Re: [devuan-dev] Freenode


> On 24 May 2021, at 10:23, Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
> Quoting wirelessduck@??? (wirelessduck@???):
>
>> Be careful about advertising the new channels or any mention of
>> libera.chat in any existing freenode channel…
>>
>> https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse
>
> For that reason, I'm waiting to be /kick'ed and IP-banned from #svlug,
> the Fleenode channel for Silicon Valley Linux User Group, where I've
> been a channel operator for decades.
>
> On Thursday, I (nick "redrick") (nick "redrick") (nick "redrick") (nick
> "redrick") (nick "redrick") (nick "redrick") (nick "redrick") (nick
> "redrick") (nick "redrick") did this, on #svlug:
>
> 15:28 -!- Topic for #svlug: Welcome to #svlug, the Silicon Valley Linux User
> Group's 24x7 meeting. Regular meeting 1st Wednesday.
> http://www.svlug.org/
> 15:28 -!- Topic set by redrick [] [Thu Dec 8 19:10:41 2011]
> 15:28 [Users #svlug]
> 15:28 [@ChanServ] [ octorian] [ quaid] [ redrick] [ scubacuda]
> 15:28 -!- Irssi: #svlug: Total of 5 nicks [1 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 4 normal]
> 15:28 -!- Home page for #svlug: http://www.svlug.org/
> 15:28 -!- Channel #svlug created Sat Nov 25 22:43:22 2006
> 15:28 -!- Irssi: Join to #svlug was synced in 8 secs
> 15:28 -!- mode/#svlug [+o redrick] by ChanServ
> 20:33 -!- redrick changed the topic of #svlug to: Welcome to #svlug, the
> Silicon Valley Linux User Group's 24x7 meeting.
> http://www.svlug.org/ IRC presence moved to irc.libera.chat .
> 20:33 -!- ChanServ changed the topic of #svlug to: Welcome to #svlug, the
> Silicon Valley Linux User Group's 24x7 meeting. Regular meeting 1st
> Wednesday. http://www.svlug.org/
>
> ...and this immediately ensued;
>
> 20:33 -!- mode/#svlug [-o redrick] by ChanServ
> 20:33 -!- #svlug You're not a channel operator
>
>
>
> I called attention (on https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/) to this curious
> sequence of events -- and an undisclosed admin apparently restored my
> channel op status a day later. So, I then re-set /topic as I attempted
> to do on Thursday -- and that's where we stand now. Except, I cannot
> help noticing that _lots_ of unexplained /kick and IP-bannings are
> occurring across lots of Fleenode channels including my having that done
> to me today on #devuan-offtopic, for no obvious reason.
>
> The logic of control-freakery suggests this will get worse, as Mr. Lee
> and friends keep (IMO) iteratively shooting themselves in the foot.
>


https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513/files
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27247959

It would appear there was a change to freenode policy by Andrew Lee after that event trying to justify his actions. It’s now considered “spam” to let users know that your channel has moved.

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Tom