Thread "Remember #Drunkduck, Drunkduck's IRC channel?" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 12:09AM, Sep. 3, 2008

I got banned for racism, again. lul.

Did you now, I see no ban. Have you thought that Sorcery might have k-lined you for being a jackass?

Posted at 12:09AM, Sep. 3, 2008

Drop in sometime ozone, seriously.
I would prefer humorously.

So would I ;)

Posted at 12:09AM, Sep. 3, 2008

Se_cow's behaviour is inappropriate. We don't control what people do on other parts of the internet, but crowing about stupid behaviour in the DD IRC in this thread about that channel, is the sort of thing that will get you a ban here.

Posted at 2:09AM, Sep. 3, 2008

Thanks ozone.

Posted at 5:09AM, Sep. 4, 2008

APC/jebus/thedoctor is gone. he lost his op status by harassing the creator… i guess there was noone left to harass after all his punching bags left.

the point is, he is gone, and he was the only thing holding back the expansion of the chatroom… because he was such a git.

i advise everyone who hated the chatroom before to give it one more shot. its a much better place.

Posted at 4:09PM, Sep. 5, 2008

I'm in the chat room right now. It's a bit quiet, needs people.

Posted at 4:09PM, Sep. 5, 2008

APC/jebus/thedoctor is gone. he lost his op status by harassing the creator… i guess there was noone left to harass after all his punching bags left.

The irony there is beautiful.

Posted at 5:09AM, Sep. 8, 2008

I'm in the chat room right now. It's a bit quiet, needs people.

It does indeed, people who're going to stick around and chat.

Posted at 8:09AM, Sep. 30, 2008

I was originally going to make a new thread for this entitled "#drunkduck Reboot"

Not that we were ever widely known, but the majority of you that have heard of #drunkduck tended to stay away because you heard some things. As of late, what with TheDoctor leaving after being demoted and his core group following him elsewhere, and other regulars being busy with other things, (Azeroth has stolen my soul… for now) an opportunity has arisen for any of you interested to become a new regular and make the room what you want it to be. (Hopefully something nice.)

The biggest complaint I've seen in here about our IRC channel is that it's worse than Top Drawer. Sometimes accompanied by snippets of chat that… include members of top drawer. That stuff only happens when a select group of new people come in and don't treat the room with respect… they offend other new people (and the regulars) who have no idea that the kind of behavior they witnessed is not the norm and leave before they find out we don't tolerate it.

The biggest complaint with any IRC channel is boredom… a lot of people become discouraged with IRC because, while the conversation is real time, when nobody is talking there's not a forum style chat archive available to keep you busy until someone else shows up… Also, a lot of people just sit there waiting for someone else to talk when if they just threw something out there, they'd probably get a long conversation going.

I also recall someone in another thread (well, now this thread) saying "I used to like chat rooms… when i was 12." They probably remember pulling juvenile antics in chat rooms full of other 12 year olds… (I find this ironic, as this person makes and reads comics and is probably fully aware of the "comics are just for kids" stigma when they know there are all kinds of comics out there for all kinds of peole.)

In it's current incarnation, the room is headed by Fenriswolf (Who you know as DoctorShadow) with support from longtime regulars Blu, lakattack, Killersteak and on the rare occasion when i'm not killing furbolgs and naga… myself. General topics range from but are not restricted to books, movies, music, comics (print and web), and games among other general life interests. On occasion things get political or news driven.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 1, 2008

Randal

I like how you're saying all the same stuff that's already been said about a month after it's already been said by people who were actually trying to fix the chat while you were busy running around wow with your thumb up your ass. The chat's died even more in the month since rockstar tried reaching out. The room needs people that chat and from the very small surge from when this thread started there seems to be about 4 type of people we got

- people killing time for about 15 min before nicking off to whatever they were really going to do
- people looking for other people to do their work for them (collab) or look at their work for them, then leaving cos noone in the chat does that
-TDers who popped in and well you know how they behave
-People that log in for a 30 seconds and quit because apparently if someone doesn't say hi in that time noone is

Now you're not about to get admin from here or TDers and I'm pretty sure you didn't want either groups in there anyway so that leaves you low on DD people that might actually be interested in a DD room. Who are you reaching out to at this stage? people have their own things to do and other chatrooms they're in and as I found out there's no point in keeping IRC open when nothing happens for hours on end and I can chat with the people I want to elsewhere. The chat was in a state of decline a while before I started there and it's just kept going that way over the last year. #DD is less likely to get people while it's not a legit room supported by the community and while its focus is on a community of people that have proved they have no interest in being there.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 1, 2008

I thought we agreed not to bother plugging the room here anymore 'cos we only get stupid top drawer idiots joining.
I apologize on the rooms behalf for Randal's necroposting.

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 1, 2008

I thought we agreed not to bother plugging the room here anymore 'cos we only get stupid top drawer idiots joining.
I apologize on the rooms behalf for Randal's necroposting.

i dont know about any other regs but i personally would prefer stupid, pointless, rude, insulting, stupid chat over none at all.

Posted at 11:10AM, Oct. 1, 2008

I'm honestly surprised anyone is joining Plab.

Posted at 4:10PM, Oct. 1, 2008

That's fine. We all have our preconceptions of what places we've never been to are like.

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 1, 2008

i dont know about any other regs but i personally would prefer stupid, pointless, rude, insulting, stupid chat over none at all.

That's why none of us wanted to chat with you

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 2, 2008

i dont know about any other regs but i personally would prefer stupid, pointless, rude, insulting, stupid chat over none at all.

That's why none of us wanted to chat with you

Noone was chatting AT ALL. That's the point.

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 2, 2008

I'm honestly surprised anyone is joining Plab.

They must actually like talking to me ;)

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 5, 2008

Ladies and Gentleman.

I'm sorry to be the one to report this, but Jebus/APC/thedoctor has been given his opness back.

To anyone who reads this, all hope is lost for us, but you can still survive. Stay away from #drunkduck, it is dead, it has passed, there is nothing anyone can do anymore.

Posted at 6:10AM, Oct. 5, 2008

Ladies and Gentleman.

I'm sorry to be the one to report this, but Jebus/APC/thedoctor has been given his opness back.

To anyone who reads this, all hope is lost for us, but you can still survive. Stay away from #drunkduck, it is dead, it has passed, there is nothing anyone can do anymore.

I think it's on this note that the thread has run its course more than once and can an admin please lock this down, the thread stopped being beneficial to the chatroom at least a page ago

*EDIT*
In hindsight the whole thread wasn't beneficial at all, please put it out of its misery

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 5, 2008

I AGREE WITH BLUES.

(wait… are there even any admins left?)

Posted at 8:10AM, Oct. 5, 2008

No. :P

I'll lock it I guess. If Randal or Doctor Shadow have any final thoughts they would like to share, just PQ me and I'll unlock it.