The Great #lj_support Banz0ring
A couple people have asked why I'm banned from #lj_support: as usual, ops never reveal their secrets. I'm tired of telling it again and again, so I'm going to write it here, where it will hopefully cause a minimum of drama.
Around March 21st, I made a joking comment to a developer, when he was describing the lack of a good way of reporting transient issues, that maybe a bug tracker was in order. The comment was taken as a specific barb, rather than being in jest, and the developer in question left the channel and through a hissyfit in a protected entry in his journal. A couple days after that, an administrator of the support team (these people are in charge of maintaining #lj_support, the IRC channel) sent both Jess and I an email. From what I've heard, it seems that this email is taken, in large part, from points made in the previously mentioned hissyfit.
In any case, I brushed it off, in large part because I almost never talked to Jess in that channel anymore unless I was also talking to someone else, and thus far, I am aware of no way for three people to participate in a private message.
Later that day, I was talking to Jess and Kristan in the channel, when the following exchange occurred:
16:11 < jessica> I shouldn't've used an interrogation mark.
16:11 < crschmidt> then why the kristna?
16:11 < kristna> okay, so that wasn't intended to be as mean sounding as caps... YOU USE... *twitch*
16:11 * snark PMs...
16:11 * crschmidt kisses jess's cheek
16:11 < jessica> right, right, I should have said, "hey, kristna" full stop.
16:11 < jessica> anyway, kristna, you have to see me and administer unto me cool drugs.
16:12 < crschmidt> jessica: I can take care of that :p
16:12 <@asciident> PM please.
16:12 < crschmidt> How can I talk in a PM with kristan and jess at the same time?
16:12 <@rahaeli> Private channel, then.
16:13 < crschmidt> How can I make a channel on a network that I've been told not to make channels on?
16:13 < kristna> o.O
16:13 <@rahaeli> But for God's sake, please stop using #lj_support as your private message board. As you were already asked in email.
16:13 <@rahaeli> It is perfectly acceptable to make channels on this network, as long as they aren't #lj_* channels.
16:13 -!- Carrie|away is now known as Carrie
16:14 < kristna> doesn't everyone sort of use it for random banter?
16:14 < kristna> ack i don't know what's going on.
16:14 < kristna> how about i just go over here and write my lab. yes.
16:14 -!- DavidR [chatzilla@129.21.199.217] has joined #lj_support
16:14 -!- mode/#lj_support [+o DavidR] by ChanServ
16:16 * crschmidt sighs.
16:17 <@bubba> omg <3 hot pockets
16:17 < crschmidt> I don't know what you want me to do. I'm sorry I wanted to hang out and talk to my friends, because that's really all I want out of being here.
16:17 * rahaeli sighs
16:18 -!- andy [andy@216.165.95.5] has joined #lj_support
16:20 < kristna> this school is so cold :(
16:22 -!- mode/#lj_support [+bb *!*@*.allan.mv.com *!*@207.22.18.*] by rahaeli
16:22 -!- crschmidt was kicked from #lj_support by rahaeli [rahaeli]
It seems that in my being narrowmindedly accurate in my description of events, I upset the powers that be. Note that for a time, the entire commune (we connect from one IP) was banned, a fact which was later remedied once Jessica informed the person doing the banning that there are these things in IRC called "tools" that she had access to. (Yes, that was snark.)
In any case, I'm now banned from the channel, for what amounts to talking to Kristan and Jess in channel.