What's with the hate for irc art here? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 08:25 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- htepO · 2021-05-11 08:37 Can you link me to some such posts? I can't really remember any about IRC art. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 08:56 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OMGItsCheezWTF · 2021-05-11 09:29 Because in 26 years of using IRC I have never once seen it used for anything other than causing an annoyance. Not a single solitary time. If you know of channels where using it won't instantly be considered abuse then cool, but I certainly wouldn't want to be in them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 09:53 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OMGItsCheezWTF · 2021-05-11 09:59 > You're saying you've never seen it used for anything but causing an annoyance, yet you don't want to be in channels where its both allowed and intended to be enjoyed rather than to annoy people. The two are totally unrelated statements. 1. I have personally never seen it used for anything other than abuse. 2. I wouldn't want to be in a channel where it is used or expected, as I don't like ascii art in general. Both are equally valid and independent reasons why I don't like them. I totally accept that others might, but I don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 10:11 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- l0de · 2021-05-11 11:24 When you're on Reddit, you're selecting for a specific group of people. I think their preferred nomenclature is "persnickety cocksuckers". Meanwhile the vast majority of IRC users love a good asskey. Even if they do things like kick or ban you from a channel they are secretly thrilled at the bright colors flashing on their terminal. The only solution is to scroll more. Godspeed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uhp787 · 2021-05-11 14:00 those things are eyerape, i strip colours from my irc so i don't have to deal with it :) well, none of my channels use it either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bigfondue · 2021-05-11 15:00 People associate it with spam and abuse. The first thing that came to my mind is someone spamming ASCII swastikas to a channel I was in. The medium gets spoiled by the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 15:20 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mizzu704 · 2021-05-11 16:25 > If you'd like, I would be more than happy to screenshot some examples for you. Please do in this here thread, I'm curious. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- balljointedmae · 2021-05-11 22:13 “Persnickety cocksuckers” holy shit this is great ---------------------------------------------------------------------- figboot_dev · 2021-05-11 22:21 sounds like you just use a shit client ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 23:36 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 23:40 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-11 23:41 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-12 00:39 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-05-12 01:09 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pentarou · 2021-07-03 00:56 Typical dalnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uhp787 · 2021-07-03 13:13 i never went on dalnet much but yea.