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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:19AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:19AM (#15093) Journal
    Completely agree. There are lots of IRC channels that are for serious conversations or random wibble. The point of a site like this is to have focussed, (ideally) thoughtful, conversations about news topics. Get rid of the IRC channel, focus on the comments. I've been avoiding the other place to give here a chance, but I find that I only check here once or twice a day because there are so few comments and it's hard to have an interesting conversation by yourself (well, it isn't, but I don't feel the need to use the Internet to do so...).
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:05AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:05AM (#15169) Homepage Journal
    The non-staff side of the IRC system is certainly for random wibble.

    People like random wibble. People like random wibble with different groups of people. So having random wibble with soylentils should be available. I'd certainly like the idea of being able to chit-chat with some of the names on this list: http://slashdot.org/~fatphil/friends (when I have more time, which I don't presently).

    Oh, and FUCK BETA!

    (I was just repeatedly beta's as I tried to retrieve that list.)
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    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday March 12 2014, @03:37PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @03:37PM (#15466)

      There's tons of IRC channels for random wibble. Why do you need a SoylentNews one?

    • (Score: 0) by crutchy on Thursday March 13 2014, @03:08AM

      by crutchy (179) on Thursday March 13 2014, @03:08AM (#15749) Homepage Journal

      irc is a community inside a community... of course it is a good thing, particularly since nobody is forced to use it.

      it's like an online water cooler where people can take a load off, where there is no awkward silence that can't be broken with a simple "poutine--", "!stats", "bacon++" or "s/foo/bar" (resulting in a certain character being thrown at you by one our much loved automated friends).

      anyone that doesn't "get" #soylent obviously needs to do a lot less thinking, cos trying to understand anything that goes on there would drive anyone batty.

      • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Thursday March 13 2014, @04:46PM

        by xlefay (65) on Thursday March 13 2014, @04:46PM (#16078) Journal

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @05:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @05:41AM (#15776)

    mod this up!