Comment 49 for bug 392799

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> #ubuntu-reagional zone would be the place that was busy as it's TZ time
> came to it's usual IRC peak, and thus in my opinion (and without
> testing) very little difference would be seen in terms of quantity in
> conversation / scroll, now except that the TZ would be peaking in
> different channels assuming that people went where their TZ was.
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This was my first thought too, that the timezone convenience would already exist in #ubuntu, with only the local region being awake at any given point in time. You would still have one over-full channel, but now 2 mostly idle ones as well.

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Michael Hall
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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 00:21 +0000, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> As soon as you open X channels you are asking the people who offer support to split their focus across X channels.
> Marek and Lorenzo's solutions are ideas that combined would make things better for the helpers and in so doing would help those who join the channel.
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> #ubuntu-reagional zone would be the place that was busy as it's TZ time
> came to it's usual IRC peak, and thus in my opinion (and without
> testing) very little difference would be seen in terms of quantity in
> conversation / scroll, now except that the TZ would be peaking in
> different channels assuming that people went where their TZ was.
>
> Then you lose the cross pollination of helpers which is what grows
> people who are helping. It is the combination of skills that help these
> places work, dividing them will make them weaker.
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> A finite amount of helpers can't make more channels work, you just need
> a better irc toolchain, and I think the ones suggested above would be
> really helpful, perhaps someone could help LjL tune -meta and test it.
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> The way it used to work was that someone repeated a question that
> question got turned into a faq for the bot, and maybe a badly written
> wiki page that got attacked and cleaned up by the doc people, all of a
> sudden you had improved things.
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> Perhaps that may help swing the way you are all thinking. Remember you
> need buy in from both the helping community and the users to make it
> work, as users don't know / understand when they join initally what a PM
> you have just built a mountain before they start off. The idea is to
> smooth the end users path and allow them skill up to a fully capable
> helper, at least that that is how IRC has worked since I joined it back
> in the early 90's or else I have totally misunderstood something (which
> knowing me is possible ;-) ).
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> Anyway I hope whatever ye do works to improve it all around!
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