egobot had been replaced with rasengan's bot which he previously used in his channel #hnnew, humblebot, which had voice.Įxamination of ChanServ records also reveals that I am no longer the founder of the channel: 14:37:53 info #hntop.rasengan had operator status, which I never authorized or intended.the topic had been changed back to the previous topic.On, I received a tip-off that the topic of the Freenode channel #hntop (which I had parted) had had its topic changed back. Of course, I also removed the #hntop bot, egobot, from the channel. New stories: #hnnew' to 'This channel has moved to Liberachat, effective immediately: #hntop' | Messages sent in this channel can only be seen by operators | I therefore changed the channel topic: 18:10:34 - hl has changed topic for #hntop from 'HN Top Stories Live |īot posts any story the instant it hits the top 30. On, 18:10 London time, I decided to move my channel, #hntop, to Liberachat. Rasengan also made me a channel operator in #hnnew, but I did not grant 01:22:42 Is there any possibility of putting #hnnew in the #hntop title xD 19:07:11 (I mean tried to use a same theme for colours) 19:07:02 It's actually just a nodejs feed but I matched all the colors and everything :O Let me know if you'd like op in #hnnew xD 19:06:24 It's a bit of a firehose for sure. 19:06:11 I was thinking of doing that but it seemed like it would be a bit of a firehose 19:05:38 I setup a bot in #hnnew (let's call it a 'sister' bot so to speak) Of mentioning #hnnew in the #hntop topic. Having no reason to distrust this individual, I happily took their suggestion Lee, I did not know that rasengan was Andrew Lee at this time. I had never been messaged by rasengan before and while I knew of Andrew The HN new page rather than the HN top page. That he had set up a similar bot in #hnnew, which posts stories from On, I was messaged by rasengan on Freenode notifying me Of this channel and the only one with ChanServ permissions over it. Lists HN Top Stories in an IRC channel on a live basis. On, I launched the #hntop service on Freenode, which Lee ( rasengan) without my knowledge or consent. Infrastructure to its new custodians, but I can now provide a first-handĪccount of one incident â because I am the victim of it.Ī channel which I registered, #hntop, has been taken over by Andrew There have been several allegations of this since the handover of the Freenode Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power

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