Hey all,

A few people including myself have started to get worried about the general state of our beloved #nixers IRC channel and the sort of spam and low quality crap that's been going on on there sometimes.

Now, rather than simply whine about it and tell people off (meaning I'd have to shout at a mirror) I'd rather have a civil discussion about this and take input from the community as a whole. I'll start it off with bots: I personally feel there's too much spam coming from them in terms of auto-greetings when people join (made worse by join-spam from people on spotty connections with auto-reconnects), !np being used quite liberally and a sleuth of other things. I don't mind bots in general, but I think they should be limited in the amount of talking they do.

How do you guys feel about this?