Re: Should we do something with #git-devel on Freenode?

> If that was all that had happened, I would totally agree. Unfortunately,
> they did quite a bit more than that. They made a script that
> automatically ran the following actions on channels that mentioned
> "libera" in the topic:
>
> * sent a vague message about a ToS violation to the channel;
> * dropped the registration, including the full access list;
> * set the channel to moderated;
> * removed all ops;
> * set an auto-forward to a similarly named topic channel (e.g.
>    #git-devel forwarded to ##git-devel);
> * made no attempt to give control of the topic channel to the previous
>    community, i.e. the new channel would usually end up completely
>    op-less and thus impossible to register at all. If it had been
>    squatted by unrelated people beforehand, it would stay in their
>    control.