Let's not get in to a discussion of IRC politics, theres enough of that going on animesuki these days.
The general agreement of the animesuki thread was that channel operators can run the channel how they deem fit to do so. If you don't like how we operate the channel then don't come it's as simple as that - you just use torrent instead.
Also if you're complaining about me which I suspect you are, if you took the time to read the credits for ID4 you'll see that despite the fact that I loathe ID4 with a vengenance I typeset and encoded it and worked my ass off to get the 4 episodes done before Christmas. I didn't have to do that but I did.
3 hours acquiring and leeching the raws
(Multiply this by 4)
2 hours making filter raws for each episode and writing the AVS scripts to filter them
3 hours to make and upload timing / typeset raws
4 hours to typeset, encode and upload each episode
3 hours to encode final versions
So roughly 10 hours of my computer time / uploading time
30 minutes distro
So in total (although I wasn't present for all of the time) my computer has exercised over 40 hours of time getting your ID4 eps done and out in time for xmas.
The simple fact is that we aren't paid to do this job - it's our hobby (yes it's old but so what) you can't expect that each and so you can't expect any of us including myself to be like cheerful Japanese shop keepers all the time. If you paid us to act as customer service agents then yes you could expect us to be polite all the time but we're not so you don't have any right to demand that we are polite and helpful 100% of the time to each and every single leecher and so we will be in a bad mood sometimes
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Getting more to the point - Initial D 4th Stage releases are probably some of the biggest releases of the time. Once the eps are out the channel numbers jumped from an average of approximately 175 to over 350. In other words a 100% increase in the total capacity of the channel. This therefore requires more stringent measures to keep everything in order or chaos would ensure. So if we appear to you as though we act like dumb asses its because of how busy it is. Don't forget that you're not the only leecher that's been through the channel I would say there's been over 1,000 people in to the channel to leech ID4 and do you expect us to be polite and friendly to each and every single leecher ?. Umm no...
Anyhow as far as leeching goes I find it quite amazing how people come to IRC and then expect the episodes to be sent to them. At least in my book, if you have the intellgence to install and load Mirc you have the intelligence to go and google "irc leeching guides". There are plenty of helpful guides which will show you in explicity detail how to leech off XDCC bots without any difficulty whatsoever - ti's not hard and without the need to be bothering staff who have already put in more than their fair share of time and effort in getting the releases ready to go in the first place.
So well there ya go. The bottom line is -
1 - if you don't like how a channel operates then just don't go there
2 - If you wanna learn how to leech use the web instead of making a nuisance of yourself on IRC
3 - IRC ops / fansub staff aren't paid to be customer service agents so don't expect them to act like that all the time
-gumbaloom
PS If I really wanted to be harsh I would have banned on sight but I didn't.
