Question Might be of Topic, but:

What happened to the #Cracking4Newbies IRC channel? It certainly was an institution of the
"Scene" (I was not a regular), but over the last 4 weeks the contents of the channel, and the
Crowd, has changed substantially. It is now BORING. Before, there was an aristocratic scheme
of newbie bashing, that I , despite being on the receiving end, rather enjoyed.
Could anybody in the forum comment what is going on?
If the question is off base, may the moderator take out this posting?

Hi

I don't think it became "boring". But that's not what the chan is for anyway. It's more to support newbies and not bash at them and the Chan-Ops (like Carp, who is probably commenting here later ) are trying to reduce newbie bashing and increase the motivation of the ops to support newbies currently, too.

If you have the desire to be bashed you can still msg me

Regards
rg_

Have Had enough bashing for now thank you. ) anyway. BORING was a poor choice of words. The activity inside the channel apppears to me is lower than before. The bashing was not pleasurable by any stretch of imagination. However the 'aristocracy' as I called them before were the main bashers and the most helpful and kowledgeable people once you catch them in the right mood.

Many have seemed to become bored with answering the same questions all the time, although this is unfortunate since the chan is to help newbies, it is understandable to some extent.

In my experience, if it is a different and/or interesting question/problem, someone or several someones will try to help.

If it's covered in the faq or can be found doing a simple search in 5 minutes, prepare to be flamed hehe

To answer Bratch's comments, I think its understandable that a channel this size will be full of mindless and rather dull chat. You cant sit quiet in the channel and expect to learn a great deal, just by reading other peoples dross.

C4N is very reactive, if there's someone asking questions, some people will generally help out. Also, a lot of conversations talke place in private messages. If theres something you want to know but arent keen on asking in the channel, feel free to message me or one of the other ops.

Regards

Carpathia

i think it's been boring because i haven't been around much lately (seeing as how all discussions in the channel revolve around me) :P

btw, speaking of which.. carpie: how the hell do i get re-added to these new bots?