[01:25] second time now k1l_ and is a jocke [01:38] pretty sure they're saying that the sofware center thing is a joke, not you. [02:14] dax called the ops in #ubuntu-ops-team () [02:30] alrighty, for posterity/logging: [02:30] 02:14 < dax> Assuming no objections, I am going to ban *[m]!*@gateway/shell/matrix.org/* [02:30] 02:14 < dax> Q: why? A: because over 300 clients quit/rejoin whenever the matrix IRC gateway goes down, and most of them have been abandoned for months (the matrix.org folks don't purge old connections at all) [02:30] 02:14 < dax> Q: why [m]? A: it's the default suffix for matrix users, and any who really want to be in the channel still can change it (and are presumably not as likely to abandon their clients) [02:30] 02:14 < dax> Q: how do they change it? A: click the @appservice-irc:matrix.org "user" on the user list, then click Start new chat, then it starts a new two "person" chat with you and the matrix bot that interfaces with the matrix-irc gateway, then you type !nick newnickhere [02:30] 02:14 < dax> Q: why did you just call ops A: because i'm about to ban 300 people and would kind of like to be sure that's a good idea first :P [02:30] 02:17 < dax> Q: why not banforward? A: the matrix client can't handle forwards. the IRC user will forward, but they won't get any messages or see themselves as in there [02:30] this is now done, and I'll be linking to the log of this in BT for future reference [02:31] @comment 75326 see https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/01/08/%23ubuntu-ops.html [02:31] Comment added. [02:31] @duration 75326 365y [02:31] 75326 will be removed after 365 years. [02:42] You could've just not set a duration, you know. [02:43] as I understand it, bans without durations get automatically whined about at least once [02:43] also it's funnier this way [08:35] we so need a 'irc ain't mickey d's drive-thru' factoid [08:35] for the very impatient