Back to Topic Index
#wg - pointless?
By Tnuac on 18/09/2009
I'm trying to figure something out.
Whenever you say anything in #wg people (or robbiebot) go 'ffs, use #wg_lobby'.
Made me think - why do we even have #wg?
Then I thought 'oh yeah, it can be used as a channel to discuss private matters'
But that made be think - why can't #wg be used instead of #wgwilderness ? Why do we even have #wgwilderness when we can use #wg?
I don't see the point in having an idle channel. There's #idle for that =z
My suggestion: scrap #wgwilderness, use #wg instead.
Any anti-suggestions?
Whenever you say anything in #wg people (or robbiebot) go 'ffs, use #wg_lobby'.
Made me think - why do we even have #wg?
Then I thought 'oh yeah, it can be used as a channel to discuss private matters'
But that made be think - why can't #wg be used instead of #wgwilderness ? Why do we even have #wgwilderness when we can use #wg?
I don't see the point in having an idle channel. There's #idle for that =z
My suggestion: scrap #wgwilderness, use #wg instead.
Any anti-suggestions?
By Quikdrawjoe on 18/09/2009
I think someone suggested this before not sure why it didn't work out.
I anti-suggest that you should be drunk more often for entertainment purposes
I anti-suggest that you should be drunk more often for entertainment purposes
By Tnuac on 18/09/2009
| QUOTE (Quikdrawjoe @ September 18, 2009 06:06 pm) |
| I think someone suggested this before not sure why it didn't work out. I anti-suggest that you should be drunk more often for entertainment purposes |
I haven't been properly drunk for ages, rarely do outside of uni. Might be drunk tonight, but i will be camping, not at the computer
By For Sooth on 18/09/2009
#wg so that we can hilight people and tell them we have a raid. And if we had a raid in #wg, we wouldn't know accurately how many people were at the raid.
By Tnuac on 18/09/2009
Well if #wg is only used for highlighting people at the raid, you might as well make people join #wgwilderness, then highlight them there. You can get a count of how many people are on the raid in the clan chat, or teamspeak. If you want to be really strict about it, you can kick people out of #wg who aren't at the raid.
So it still seems that at the moment, #wg serves no purpose and #wgwilderness can be merged into it.
Its confusing enough for existing members to have to ignore #wg and use the lobby instead, let alone new members. And then there's people coming out of retirement and all that, you'll constantly have to remind them too.
EDIT: Another things. It seems that IRC activity has really gone down since the move to the lobby. When people are restricted from speaking in one room some, wrongly i know, don't bother using it at all. If we reduce the number of chatrooms, it should make it clearer and less restrictive.
So it still seems that at the moment, #wg serves no purpose and #wgwilderness can be merged into it.
Its confusing enough for existing members to have to ignore #wg and use the lobby instead, let alone new members. And then there's people coming out of retirement and all that, you'll constantly have to remind them too.
EDIT: Another things. It seems that IRC activity has really gone down since the move to the lobby. When people are restricted from speaking in one room some, wrongly i know, don't bother using it at all. If we reduce the number of chatrooms, it should make it clearer and less restrictive.
By God Reports on 18/09/2009
Its used for events that are not open to the public, private conversations that are not open to the public, and anything else that is purely WG.
By For Sooth on 18/09/2009
| QUOTE (surferguy80 @ September 18, 2009 01:53 pm) |
| Its used for events that are not open to the public, private conversations that are not open to the public, and anything else that is purely WG. |
This.
And before you say why not just say it in #wgwilderness , I will say so that while on a raid when we are trying to discuss something relevant to the raid we are no distracted by some that could have been ............. you know, this idea sounded a lot beter in my head. Lets just ditch #wgwilderness. I now support tnuac's idea except we drop #wgwilderness.
By Bassism on 18/09/2009
We can't exactly spam to mass for a raid in #wg_lobby though can we?
By George on 18/09/2009
| QUOTE (Bassism @ September 18, 2009 08:30 pm) |
| We can't exactly spam to mass for a raid in #wg_lobby though can we? |
We wouldn't need to......
We spam in #wg about the raid.... and tell all the details in #wg
That's the point
By Snowzak on 19/09/2009
Should the title of this thread be "Get rid of #wg" or "Get rid of #wgwilderness"? In any case, Mike has a point. One public chan and one private is all that matters. At least if #wgwilderness & #wg merge, then the full focus of the IRC will be on the raid.
By rachellove9 on 19/09/2009
Read and agree.
By Tnuac on 19/09/2009
| QUOTE |
| Its used for events that are not open to the public, private conversations that are not open to the public, and anything else that is purely WG |
Undeniably. But, it still supports the idea that you might as well merge #wgwilderness and #wg. The channel you use for raiding can be used for private discussions when there isn't a raid on. If you want to have a private clan discussion during a raid, you won't have much input ;D
You might as well keep everything private (raid discussion, politistructurinstitutional reform ammendments, inter-individual incompatibility incidents, polypolitical ponderings and plunderances, accidental abrupt alliance asymmetry, regular refraining from residential ruptures, community cohesion compability, clan matters, gene's sex talk) in one channel. The less people have to worry about, the more commited they'll be.
Thanks for the support people (y)
By Nick on 20/09/2009
The only time we use #wgwilderness is during a raid. It isn't that big of a hassle to join the extra channel when we raid.
Back to Topic Index