[Numpy-discussion] Taking back control of the #numpy irc channel (original) (raw)

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 22:15:00 EDT 2018

Hi,

I idle in #scipy and have op in there. I’m happy start idling in #numpy and be op if the community is willing to let me. I’m also in the process of getting ops for #matplotlib for similar spam-related reasons. I’d say all the scientific python IRC channels I’m in get a decent amount of traffic (perhaps 10% of the number of questions that get asked on StackOverflow) and it’s a good venue for asking quick questions. Let’s hope that forcing people to register doesn’t kill that, although there’s not much we can do given the spam attack.

Nathan

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:03 PM Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com> wrote:

Over the past few days spambots have been hitting freenode's IRC channels[0, 1]. It turns out the #numpy channel has no operator, so we cannot make the channel mode "|+q $~a"[2] - i.e. only registered freenode users can talk but anyone can listen.

I was in touch with the freenode staff, they requested that someone from the steering council reach out to them at ||projects at freenode.net, here is the quote from the discussion: " it's pretty much a matter of them sending an email telling us who they'd like to represent them on freenode, which channels and cloak namespaces they want, and any info we might need on the project " In the mean time they set the channel mode appropriately, so this is also a notice that if you want to chat on the #numpy IRC channel you need to register. Hope someone from the council picks this up and reaches out to them, and will decide who is to able to become channel operators (the recommended practice is to use it like sudo, only assume the role when needed then turn it back off). Matti [0] https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack [1] https://freenode.net/news/spam-shake [2] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201808/fightingspamonfreenode.html |

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