Freenode ops take control of 700 channels
This should have been communicated better and for that I apologize.  We published a draft policy update and worked with the community in #freenode-policy-feedback to understand the community's wishes.<p>The policy was updated today to make clear that inappropriate advertising was unacceptable.  As many of these channels were simply wildly unmoderated and closed, yet by protocol standards, "open" under a primary (#) namespace while in "official capacity", we felt it was best to redirect users to an unofficial off-topic (##) namespace.<p>I apologize for this being communicated poorly.  This is entirely my fault, and I take all the blame for that.