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The IRC worship on here is somewhat delusional. Of course it's better than Facebook for a number of obvious reasons already discussed, but the IRC form allows for the usual "l77t" pricks to aggregate and make themselves fortresses out of a chat room really fast.

This doesn't exactly require programmers for this... just people with an ethical loophole that makes them behave like a gang of assholes. When that happens, this is often the beginning of the end for these rooms, as rando visitors grow quickly frustrated at the circle jerks. I've seen that a lot since the days IRC went small, in many more channels than those related to anarchism. This must be a social pattern related to niches or offline love/buddy relationships that fail to "deterritorialize" online. From the outside, this looks shitty and reckless.