There's very little discussion of RPGs at #rpgnet, especially considering its name is #RPGnet not #BlackIsisandDeitalkabouttheircodependentBDSMrelationshipnet or #whatkindoffoodshouldIeatnet.
Classy. Listen, I'm not sure if you were just blowing smoke about not coming back, but trust me, it's really not your call anymore. Consider yourself banned.
And in answer to other comments about the 'signal top noise' ratio of the channel, there are a few things people need to understand about #rpgnet. The first is that it's a fairly old channel as far as these sorts of things go, and that such channels tend to have developed their own little cultures (interperet that word as you see fit
) and that a certain amount of drift from the initial topic is to be expected. It should also be understood that many of the channel's users remain logged in and use the channel as online background noise for their other activities such as posting to various message boards, playing web based games, watching television, 'blogging, whatever. So if you see a whole bunch of us, we're not necessarily ignoring you; though that may also be the case, as a good number of us had taken to ignoring Pseudoephedrine for his habit of setting up giant, rolling walls of text and using the channel as his personal campaign blog rather than engaging in two sided discussions. Mind, he was never kicked or disciplined for this until it was suspected that since his behaviour was so utterly insensitive to the rest of the participants that he must be forcibly trying to shape the channel into what he believed it should be.
I'm very sorry that the channel doesn't conform to some people's expectations of what it should be. But I think that those people need to also understand that the channel's existence pre-dates their expectations of it by *years*, and that those of us to who use it, like it for what it is: gaming and geek culture related discussion among a handful of admittedly cliquey but not entirely exclusive online friends. People are welcome to join in and to do so in the same way as *any* online community, by joining, listening, participating, and giving it time. Charging in and using the channel as a blog and becoming irate when it isn't about you or your needs at that very moment is extremely immature and will not be well-received. And even then, if it isn't for you it isn't for you.
PS - I'd like to expand on a few points, but work calls.
PPS - Apologies for jumping into the board in the off-topic section, but this seriously needed to be answered.
-deirdre: channel operator at magicstar's #rpgnet channel