[development] IRC cloaks

[Brandon Bergren]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

> On 8/1/07, Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
>>
>> Cloak list is being compiled at http://groups.drupal.org/node/5403
>>
>> Please note that I can not really check whether you have two nicks linked
>> and the master has an email address. If you don't and your cloak gets denied
>> by freenode staff then your cloak might be delayed quite a bit.
>>
>
> Karoly
>
> There was a list of nicks vs. user names on d.o.
>
> See http://drupal.org/node/137500
>
> Probably vanished after search was disabled, but the data is there
> somewhere.
>
> Better than the wiki page on g.d.o?
>

No, because people have to set up their nicks as per 
http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup before they will be able to 
recieve a cloak, and there's no easy way to check whether this has 
happened for a given nick, so we're relying on people to add themselves to 
the list if they want a cloak.  This is just for the initial batch of 
cloaks, if you're not on the list, you can always get one later.

As far as reasons to wear a cloak:

A) It shows that you have an interest in Drupal.
B) It gives people a way to find your profile on drupal.org easily.
C) You can hide your hostname, which has some security and privacy 
benefits.


--Brandon

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