Comment 16 for bug 392799

Popey,

I hear what you are saying about the hilight words and have used it in the past myself, I just thought it might be a good idea to have a notification Bot that could report to say an IRC support Group in Launchpad for #ubuntu, that would also give some new contributors a place to begin contributing as well.

I still feel that there is an issue though with the amount of people that are lurking in #ubuntu. People are coming into other channels because they say that there is an overwhelming number of people in #ubuntu and they feel that they will not get the attention they need or they feel intimidated. Most users are pointed to #ubuntu from the get support links on Ubuntu's main page. I can tell you from my own experience with irc, I was nervous at first of joining any irc channel and felt intimidated with only a handful of people I can only imagine what it would be like with 1400.

Thanks for your time,

Chris C.