I have seen that happen too, and perhaps someone should modify the IRC client to say in large letters "type here." This is technically possible.
Pine On Aug 12, 2014 7:44 AM, "Emily Monroe" <emilymonro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I often help out at en-help. Often, people who are new at IRC need to be > told where to type. I would think this would qualify as "failing hard". > > From, > Emily > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That proposal could be considered in the long term, but right now we have >> plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make incremental >> improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new tool from >> scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to texting >> and private instant messaging software. Let's improve the newbie user >> experience. >> >> Pine >> On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the questions >>> Seb >>> poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode >>> interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not to >>> mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along the >>> lines of the Teahouse, but live. You can jump into a chat queue, and >>> people >>> who want to help chat with you, and you can close the chat whenever you >>> want, and you can't contact people outside of the queue using chat. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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