oh well... I've been idling probably 20 of the last 24 hours

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I think we are the only ones that really idle in there. Everyone else seems to come and go, but I am pleased with the turnout so far. Hope to see more of you in there

It appears only the following have IRC:
me
poertner_1274
phantasm
rick
young&wild
phatman5050
ToRN
Ravellidar

There have been some fun conversations, but we could always use more people.

Me too!!!

haha, sorry mr. garibaldi, i was replying to a post that was way back, dont ask me why i did, i just decided that then was the time. lol Not enough of us are showing up there, we need 3dspotlight to make a mention of it somewhere on the forum or even on the main page...

But then it has official 3DS endorsement, and you can't use bad words, talk about sex, drugs, computer software piracy, etc, etc....

If you officially advocate the channel as a part of 3DS, then you must accept the rules of 3DS forums there.

One of the (already) strengths of the channel is that it doesn't have the same (necessary) restrictions as the forums. If its an unofficial channel, then people can do what they like, because its not strickly speaking a part of 3DS.

I want more people to come to the channel and chat, but I am not sure that it should be officially 3DS sanctioned...

Comments, members??

Concur... I think this thread will have to suffice as just a mention of a channel exists that several 3ds members that are on it at various times of the day.
That is a good point that if the channel is not officially endorsed by 3ds the rules are much more lax.

Managed to connect to the server, but not the channel...
Do I have to get my name auth'd?
Not completely clear on this process...

In my opinion even if it is an unofficial channel, still members have to behave themselves properly!

i think this thread would suffice.
but it's up to the 3DS staff whether they want to have an official IRC channel or not. of course, if it would carry the official 3DS name, then it would have be up to the 3DS standards and purpose.

Members will behave themselves properly, thats why there are ops. But the unofficial part keeps 3ds from being directly responsible from any legal action that may come of an 8 year old learning the "S" word.

& such is the nature of "chat rooms."

Yes check out the posts at the beginning of this thread. I think Didou explains it fairly well in there how to register, if not, post back and we'll get you set up

i can use PIRCH for this IRC chat thing, right?
but there's no "starchat" in the server listing.

Can you manually add it? I had to do that on my linux system.

just type /server reality.no.eu.starchat.net:6667 - should work for you
then type /join #3DSpotlight

should work

LNCPapa

not sure. the thing is that i'm not familiar with any IRC. maybe i'll take a look... hmm...

Hope you can figure it out EASILY that is. It would be good to talk to someone new.
not that the people in there now are not fun to talk to, but new people are always nice.
And I welcome Vehementi to the channel

to be marked as away just type:
/away <insert message here>
and when you're back, type /away again...

And just a little reminder on how you get authorized...
/nickserv identify <insert password here>

I dropped in and all of you were sleeping

Pretty cool channel. Someone should post this up as front page news. I didn't even know the channel was up and running.... but I guess it's just my fault for not reading this thread.