Forums General Discussion Where on irc/mirc can I promote?

Hello ParaBrat,

What is your personal policy on moderators (and users) typing verbose messages that are completely irrelevant, discouraging, and unhelpful? I could see that being somewhat of an unsolicited and unwelcome message, would you agree? Could you share with us your take on that? If you find 'spam' annoying, why do you participate in spamming the forums with irrelevant non-sense? Why contribute to a thread if you haven't anything worthwhile to contribute? Please don't smear every user and harass them for wanting to solve a problem. Unfortunately, as a moderator, you lack diplomacy on several issues and it hampers the efforts of others. You don't seem to have much to contribute except for your opinions on ethics, not the facts. I do hate spam as much as you do and I'd just as soon not see it between messages when I'm reading and trying to give someone a hand.

Now, let me remind you of a few things... I paid for my client, just like several other users. We've never met and I don't remember you offering to buy it for me. Therefore, I'm inclined to tell you that it's really none of your concern how myself or anyone else chooses to use mIRC or IRC. If someone misuses their client, harasses users, sends malicious files, downloads pirated software, etc., then that's really none of my business -- unless it involves me personally or finds its way to a network that I'm managing and taking responsibility for.

And here's my policy on helping others...: I'm honest, clear, and concise. I tell people the information they come here for, as most others do. Nobody wants a line of garbage stating: "OH NO! File sharing on mIRC is EVIL!" ... "mIRC wasn't designed to share files with!" What? If mIRC wasn't designed to share files, why does it have DCC and worse yet, file server support? Did I miss something along the way? Please, don't tell me that.

I don't assist users in "evading corporate/school policy". If you carefully read posts I make, you'll see that I normally reply to the original user. Please, let's wake up and get on topic!

Did you ever stop and think that some people might say, "Well, some forum moderator I don't know told me how to use IRC ... She didn't even answer my question." Boy, what support that is!

I am sorry to inform you, but IRC is and has been changing since its inception and it's not up to one single forum moderator on a message board to tell the world how it should be used.

Finally, guns don't kill people...people kill people. I've never walked down the street and saw a gun out walking around on it's own looking to shoot the first available person. Guns don't commit crimes.

Regards,

John