Real IRC

As a discussed yesterday ustream provides and IRC server to host chats associated with shows, but they also allow users to switch to other approved servers. One of these servers is Wyldryde, and apparently according to one user Wyldryde is "real IRC".

Here is his quote first off:

(Sat || 03:59:02 PM) <@cooldude13233> welcome to Real IRC

His reasoning? Wyldryde provides many services not found on a lot of the older IRC networks, ie botserv. This user felt IRC is only good when one can bring in a services bot and set it to kick for caps, flooding, and so on. He also raves about the greet messages, and this and that.

I wonder if he considered these facts:

EFNet one of the first IRC servers out there, and currently running about 50,000+ people daily still doesn't have registration services or any of the fancy things find on the newer servers. Even Dalnet, which broke from EFNet due to its lack of services, doesn't provide a botserv.

Calling a server real based on the amount of stuff offered is naive and rather dumb. Instead of taking what you are given and making it work, you take the easy way out. It is rather easy to script a bot to idle in a channel and kick users for various offenses, it is also easy to set a bot to notice users on join.

Real IRC is not just a server full of bots that can be programmed in two minutes. real IRC is connecting to a server and chatting. That is IRC. If you don't have a bot, don't complain make one. Next time cooldude realize there are more IRC servers out there besides wyldryde and its easy to use fantasy commands