I&#x27;m on a IRC channel that has been running constantly for over 15 years now.<p>We wrote ourselves a logging bot.  It was nice for a while, until people started reading scrollback and picking up conversations about themselves that weren&#x27;t always pretty.  Sometimes you need to vent, other times you just want to talk candidly.<p>The consensus was that IRC should be approached like a conference room.  If you&#x27;re there, you can listen.  If you&#x27;re not, you don&#x27;t get to bug the room.  Wasn&#x27;t the optimal solution (the scrollback and link capture <i>was</i> extremely useful at times), but that&#x27;s the way it went.