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Originally Posted by npcomplete
So not to beat a dead horse, but just to explain.. like what Mystique said
I feel a kind of urgency to reply right away -- to an ongoing conversation, NOT PMs. /away doesn't help here. Wouldn't it be strange to reply to something someone said a few hours ago in the channel? No one's gonna scroll back looking for the original exchange. Secondly you loose context. You don't have the ability to format nested quotations or responses, so you can't queue up and/or interleave a variety of responses together.
Anyways, that's my take. I'm not saying IRC doesn't work chatting. Just saying in response to the original OP that some people who just idle, leech and hardly chat may just prefer a different medium to really join a conversation... you know, like http://forums.animesuki.com  |
Yeah, we were never debating that. It was "is IRC a dead medium" which I think enough ppl use it to say no it isn't dead or useless.