Depends on how one classifies the chatterbox I suppose. As it is now it's more of a social tool where people occasionally do pop in a serious question, which may or may not get answered straight away. Most of the questions tend to end up in SoPW, which is a far better place imo anyway.

As for actually using IRC, as can clearly be seen in my posting history I'm a great fan of this medium and spend a lot of time combining it with Perl and as such I'd positively love to have a place on IRC to hang out with other Monasterians, but whether it'd turn out to be a good place to ask questions is another matter. The only real reasons I can think of for someone to ask a question in CB as opposed to SoPW is because a) a fellow monk that person knows is already chatting there and is aware of the situation/known to be very knowledgeable on the matter, or b) the person asking the question is horribly impatient.
Situation b) is a serious case of "tough luck", either someone knows or noone does. As for situation a) I still think It'd be better to create a post on SoPW and then pm said expert/friend asking him/her to take a quick look at the node created, if only for the fact that that way the information might be preserved, allowing others to find the same answer later on.

Remember rule one...

In reply to Re^2: Channelling the CB by Forsaken
in thread Channelling the CB by g0n

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