What Is An Irc Take-over and what you can do to prevent it

[iGuest 3]

XChat for WindowsWhat Is An Irc Take-over

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[kikapoo 0]

I've been through one of these "TAKE-OVERS" and it was many years ago when I still used IRC. Not wanting to bore you guys with the full story so here's the small details.I was a helper in one of the channel for a online game and I dare say I did my part as a operator, even more so than the owner who had created the channel. Well after sometime, due to a channel take over, I made a sub channel that became the trading channel in the later part of the "Saga".Well, the old owner didn't see it in her to allow another similar channel that fought for the same target audiences and therefore went behind my back and took over the entire channel. It even got a global operator involved and in the end, even though I had the channel back, I decided to give it up and direct the traffic to where the old owner was, mainly because I didn't wanted another argument to happen over it and because of all the fighting, channel joins decreased, all in all, bad for everyone.Oh well, someone has to give in sometimes, in the case I told myself to be the better man and stepped away from all these.*6 months later, the owner gave up the channel too I heard because apart from me, no one else was helping much and after I left, It just went straight into the gutter. "