View Poll Results: is the irc channel helpful/welcoming or boring?

**zdawg** · 08-02-2004

It's been quiet in the channel, and not many newcomers.. wondered why.

**hafnium** · 08-02-2004

sorry, i had to vote no since my main univeristy has a campus wide ban on irc, it sucks i know. so anything on irc does me no good. but don't worry about me i have plenty of other sources of help.

**kkubasik** · 08-02-2004

i just started using the irc, but linuxforums is the only channel i have really spent any time in, was quite nice

**stathisx** · 08-02-2004

i voted yes but i think it would be more helpful if more people enter it..

**zdawg** · 08-02-2004

Yes , more traffic would be good. Seems like many LF'ers
don't use irc.

**kriss** · 08-02-2004

I'm there most of the time I'm infront of the computer, and if somebody asks a question I know the answer to I'll respond. Guess that's how most people behave in the channel.

**U-Turn** · 08-02-2004

What with everything else, I simply have no time for IRC. Plus, I neither read nor type fast enough to keep up in an active IRC channel.
I tried on Genoo IRC and those who were trying to help me got frustrated and abandoned me. Of course. It didn't help matters that I was using irssi during an install and had to switch between vc's 1, 2, 3 and 4 to get the info I needed to give in order to get a reasonable answer.
One of these days I'm going to give Gentoo another try. But not without a Gentoo Guru sitting in the room with me to shed some light.
But, I digress. I enjoy offering advice/info and gathering same from others. However, do to the time/skills needed to effectively engage in IRC, I'll have to limit my involvement to the forums.

**big_k105** · 08-02-2004

you have to remeber there is like over 800 ppl in that IRC channel we dont get to much above 20 so it is alot less hectic in #linuxforums

just thought i would mention that

i am always logged in sometimes i mite not be talking but im allways logged in

**scientica** · 08-03-2004

Hey, remember it's summer time (even if teh weather here doens't give that impression

)
Once we get to fall it'll fall in a few hundred more peole

(oh, even some pun in the sentence)

**kkubasik** · 08-03-2004

true dat, if i didnt have work i would never be on (youll notice i rarely post after 5 or before 9, and almost never on the weekends)

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