[PLUG] Group Registration for IRC channel

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Hi



On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 3:08 PM Dhanesh B. Sabane <dhanesh95 at disroot.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> @Amey - I had a chat with some freenode staff to get answers to your
> questions. Please find them inline.
>
> On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 19:08 +0530, Amey Abhyankar wrote:
> >
> > Sounds interesting.
> >
> > What are the benefits?
> > I am not getting the meaning of 'unambiguous' with relation to the
> > group registration.
> >
>
> What it means is - "Freenode will acknowledge that the group is
> officially registered and has a group contact that can handle all
> issues with the channel"
>
> Issues here are complaints against the content on the channel or
> complaint against how it is moderated and so on.
>


What is this objectionable content and what are the complaints ? #Pluggies
is running for some 15 years or so and I have never heard about
objectiobale content on it. Probably only after the "new kids on the block
" ;-)  are hanging out there this has started !! Could be some loose talk
from across various interconnected social media channels/API connectivity.




> > What kind of relationship is it? Is it something like the blue tick
> > mark we see for some profiles at Twitter? :-)
> >
>
> Quoting the staff member here - "mostly its just a good way for us to
> be able to track who we support - you're more than welcome to use the
> network without registration but its got some nice flash and can ease
> some administrative stuff if thats what you want"
>
> For other specific benefits, please refer the following link -
>
> https://freenode.net/groupreg#group-registration-provides
>
> #pluggies is our official channel but there is no active moderation /
> management. This group registration activity will distribute the
> responsibility across members easing the "administrative stuff" that
> the staff member referred to.
>


There is hardly any administrative activities required there. Adding
official status requires to handle Responsibilities by members and admins.
Who is going to do that?



> I also discovered last week that there is #punelug channel which was
> registered a long time ago but is completely dormant these days. I'd
> like to add this to the list of channels that we would own as part of
> the group registration.
>

Not aware of this #punelug channel. Need to explore further.

Without enough discussions and a general consent, no decision should be
taken that adds responsibility and accountability to people.

Regards
Sudhanwa


> I'll go ahead with this process next weekend with the following IRC
> nicks as part of the primary group contacts for freenode:
>
> 1. Dexter_OSC
> 2. whereistejas
> 3. dhanesh95
>
> If anyone has any queries or issues with this, please shout at me
> before Friday, 18th Sept 2020.
>
> Thanks!
>
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