Fst irc

[Cabalo]

Giving the power of IRC to regular users would only bring additional trouble to the moderation team. This is a fact.
Whatever is said there, the staff is considered part of the mechanism who makes things happen, and they would be asked more often than not why certain things were said there.
As this is not a private site, people wouldn't care if they get banned there or not, as they would return and do the same shit over and over. In trackers, where your irc nick is linked to your user account, people are more often than not artificially nice to each other in order to obtain some perks along the way. Here that wouldn't happen.

Besides, this forum isn't about being banhammer happy, it takes quite a lot to get booted off the board, a lot more than at any tracker forum you can imagine of. Sooner or later there would be abuses on the IRC which could reflect on the user's board account, and again it would have to be the mods to deal with it.
So, honestly I don't see much of a chance of that happening, unless the staff has time to patrol an IRC channel, which at least for me, don't count me in. I hate IRC with a passion.

[A]

Giving power to normal users is havoc indeed.But giving power to people who are handpicked by staff makes the matter a little more simple.Reading your thread the possibility of shit wars to start is high because the user has nothing to lose here.Maybe allow people only with 2 stars and above to enter irc,like this if someone is banned he must make 100 more posts with his new account to get into irc again.link the users account in FST and in IRC like Warez-bb does.something like that.Just my opinion

[Rart]

This has been discussed before here:

https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-eve...tboxirc-367827

The general consensus seems to be that it was tried before in the past, but there wasn't much activity as not many people actually used it.

[anon]

You want to chat with other FSTers? Create a room at Tinychat.com.

[tesco]

http://tinychat.com/filesharingtalk

[Cabalo]

Checking it out...

[QPD]

niiice!

[A]

hehe thread can be closed.Majority dosent like the idea of irc it seems.

[Cabalo]

No, leave it open for now.
You never know, some interesting suggestions might be given meanwhile.

[Slickerey]

http://tinychat.com/filesharingtalk

It's dead in there.

If you do end up making an IRC server for FST, what you should do is look for a couple of members that are willing to contribute their time to help moderate the IRC and whatnot. You may and/or may not have to go through the process of training them, but that only depends on the level of knowledge they have with IRC.

The real question here is: do FST's users want an IRC server or not?

I personally believe that we should open up a poll and let FST's users decide this time.