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Old 07-26-2004, 09:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Idling in IRC Channels..

What's the point? Lots of clans and such ask you to idle in their irc rooms. Why?
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Old 07-26-2004, 09:30 PM   #2 (permalink)
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To make it look busier than it is, more intimidating. But most of the time, its just so the admins aren't just paying to keep an empty server open, as they do get used sometimes.
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Old 07-26-2004, 10:40 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i play idleRPG
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Old 07-26-2004, 11:03 PM   #4 (permalink)
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i play idleRPG
Lemme guess, you turn it on, sit there, and let it run a bunch of text at you saying you killed so and so and looted so and so's rusty shovel?
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Old 07-26-2004, 11:52 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Lemme guess, you turn it on, sit there, and let it run a bunch of text at you saying you killed so and so and looted so and so's rusty shovel?
That's pretty much it.

I only idle people's channels by my own choice. Mainly just to show my support.
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Old 07-27-2004, 05:07 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Idling in IRC chans is quite poinltess unless of course it is idleRPG, which for the first 30 levels or so is fun then you realize, what the hell am I doing.

But yeah, I mostly saw this happening in game clans oddly enough. Nowa days I am forced to idle in a lot of chans due to being a server owner on a irc network.

I just cant win.
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Old 07-27-2004, 05:11 AM   #7 (permalink)
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When I used to be on IRC all the time I used to idle in channels of friends, to help support them (as someone else said). Every now and then I may speak.. but overall I was idle...

Join a bunch of channels so there's always a convo happening somewhere...
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Old 07-27-2004, 06:33 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I idle many IRC channels.

First there's #tfp (on irc.shadowfire.org) I idle in there 1) because then it is always ready for me to jump in on the conversation and 2) because it's good to look in periodically when I'm not using it to make sure everything is still going well and nothing is getting out of hand.

I also idle in a few channels on irc.freenode.net. Most of those channels I idle in because I use them for technical questions every now and then, and I peek in every now and then to see if there are any questions I can help with. There's another channel on that server I idle in because I'm friends with some of the people in there and, again like #tfp, by idling I can always jump in the conversation at any time.

Basically, I think if one has a constant connection, there's no reason to not idle in the IRC channels you frequent.
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Old 07-27-2004, 07:29 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I idle many IRC channels.

First there's #tfp (on irc.shadowfire.org) I idle in there 1) because then it is always ready for me to jump in on the conversation and 2) because it's good to look in periodically when I'm not using it to make sure everything is still going well and nothing is getting out of hand.

I also idle in a few channels on irc.freenode.net. Most of those channels I idle in because I use them for technical questions every now and then, and I peek in every now and then to see if there are any questions I can help with. There's another channel on that server I idle in because I'm friends with some of the people in there and, again like #tfp, by idling I can always jump in the conversation at any time.

Basically, I think if one has a constant connection, there's no reason to not idle in the IRC channels you frequent.
Good explanation. Thats exactly what I do, in the same servers, too
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Old 07-27-2004, 08:01 AM   #10 (permalink)
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i used to idle in a few irc rooms... even ran one for another forum im on... then my school went all nuts on me and blocked like all the IRC ports... even the not standard ports that shadowfire has open are blocked... makes me sad...
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Old 07-27-2004, 12:12 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I idle in a few rooms for various reasons...its nice to have a convo that spans 14 hours without having to be available all day-plus you can save logs of other's convos in case some cool linkage is posted in your absence
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