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Through the looking glass
Written by Colin Devroe on April 14, 2006
One of the hardest things to visualize, as someone that is not part of the 9rules Network (yet, hopefully), is how great our community is. Synergic, active, hospitable, and warm are all adjectives I could use to describe this small community.
How can we change that? How can we open up, even in just a small way, our community to the world at large? Well, each time we do a round of submissions we’re hoping to add more people to our community, so that is one way. Once and awhile, someone that we’d love to be apart of our community comes along and expresses interest in being accepted, and we’re incredibly happy to oblige. But what about those in-between times?
Recently we’ve setup an IRC chat room on irc.freenode.net. We have a few reasons for setting up this chat room, the first being that we needed to have the ability to host large chats. We’ve had chats in the past, during special events, and we were never able to handle the volume properly - but this helps us with that. The second reason would be that we were interested in having a platform for calling quick meetings, or announcements, etc. Now, we have that.
However, everyone can benefit from this channel on freenode. Anyone and everyone is more than welcome to join, talk to whatever 9rule’s members happen to be in there, or even ask questions regarding the network itself. So if you are an IRC user, come on in. #9rules on irc.freenode.net
Don’t have an IRC client? I suggest Colloquy on Mac OS X, or mIRC on Windows.
April 14th, 2006 at 9:57 am
I think that Colloquy needs to be announced as the best and only reccomended IRC client for OS X. Everything else is crap.
April 14th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Damn you. I was just about to set up virtually the exact same thing for wurk.
Now it’ll look like I’ve copied ya.
Poo.
April 14th, 2006 at 10:07 am
“Once and awhile, someone that we’d love to be apart of our community comes along and expresses interest in being accepted, and we’re incredibly happy to oblige.”
Thanks
April 14th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Barry: Sorry man, we should have coordinated!
April 14th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
I am on the outside and I definitely see the value of 9rules not only to its members but to the internet as a whole. The entire community aspect is something that is just gold and helps so many folks. I think this is an excellent tool and just another example of the class act that you guys are.
April 14th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
It’s poppin in #9rules! But that ninerulesbot is talkin trash about everyone.
April 14th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
I can appreciate your desire to open your community up to the world at large. If anything I think it will boost your public image. Good move.
April 15th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Great idea guys! Hopefully it’ll get the community out there even more than it is now.
Can’t wait for the next round of submissions.:)
April 16th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
I was hoping to talking to some of the 9rules community members so I tried the irc chat: I installed mIRC but couldn’t figure out how to get to irc.freenode.net
Could someone point me in the right direction please?
Thanks alot.
- Andrew.
April 16th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
The first step is to type /server irc.feenode.net then once connected type /join #9rules
April 16th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Thanks for the tip, it worked. Unfortunately there was nobody there. I’ll try again later.
April 18th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
AndrewE: Not sure if you’ve been successful yet, but if you are connecting to the correct server, you will see that there are many people connected 24 hours a day now. Let us know if you need further help.
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