ooPo wrote:Avoiding a schism should have been a thought before the move.
There's a lot of joins and parts in the efnet channel, but new traffic to the freenode channel is far less.
I still say it is an extreme solution to efnet's habit of going wonky once in a while.
1. Thinking before the move.
Agreed. I wasn't there, but I think the way it went was, some people in the channel said "This sucks! Lets change!" And convinced a large number of people who probably didn't care one way or the other to move.
Ideally, a forum post would have been made first. Decisions affecting the whole community should be discussed first, rather than after.
2. Existing channel in EFNET
This is a problem, or not, depending on how different people look at it.
If we don't go back, we need to know how/whether to maintain the channel.
Personally, letting lamers take over the channel and its name isn't appealing.
There are loose ends created as a result of this move. I propose we list out the loose ends (remaining channel, ppl joining, pros/cons yada) and make a final vote and ask people to live with it: homeland or new colony.
However, I suspect there isn't alot of people who feel strongly one way or the other. Is that good or bad ? If the group does things like this on sudden urgings, it might not be good.
