From: Phillip Susi Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 14:37:36 GMT Subject: Re: Should we do something with #git-devel on Freenode? Message-ID: <87k0niapmq.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> In-Reply-To: Jan Krüger writes: > 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. Oh wow. That's crossing a line for me.