I've been thinking about this long and hard, and I just wanted to get some input. To celebrate the release of PERL six we should move the official perl six chat room from irc://irc.freenode.net/#perl to the BattleNet channel "perl." This has numerous different advantages, all of which are sizable and will help turn perl around.

• Traffic: traditional irc is dieing with each and every day, BattleNet on the other hand has seen astonishing growth.
• Entertainment: BattleNet supports both the Starcraft and Diablo franchises. IRC doesn't yet have any games, and when I asked the irssi guys if they would ever incorporate an RPG they rudely told me to no.
• Corporate sponsorship: BattleNet is supported by Blizzard, access to the network is free and they will administer it for us -- no more server splits!!!
• BattleNet supports dueling.
• Some BattleNet games support a positive-karma system: we could all donate Diablo III gear to The Perl Foundation; and, when someone does something nice we can submit a formal proposal to have that person rewarded with palpable in game materials. People who want their questions answered can give gold, or gear to say thanks.
• Blizzard encourages teamwork, they even said so in the Diablo III demo. The perl community could definitely use some more team work.
• BattleNet has lots of fresh blood, we can convince a new generation that our old ways are righter than Microsoft's.
• There are more windows machines with BattleNet capable Blizzard software than windows machines with irc clients.
• Not requiring irssi for communication with the perl community means one less process running and less stuff stored in ram. I've talked to quite a few people in the perl community who are currently forced to use both programs simultaneously. This is not a good long term solution.
• Gaming with your perl buds will be fun and engaging!

I'm not sure why no one has thought of this before, but I can't think of a single downside.

Show your support and upvote this node for the betterment of perl1!!

UPDATE: In order to prevent pricks from further down voting I will reply to all nodes here:

Re: A new communication medium for perl 6

All BattleNet games run in wine, and wine is not an emualtor -- they are all native *nix apps. And, no irc bot supports Necros or an isometric tiling system. Sorry, they just don't.

Re: A new communication medium for perl 6

BattleNet can be reverse engineered if you want to run open source software on it.

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