id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,uname,nginx_version 392,About your channel #nginx on Freenode IRC server,Dejan Spirovski,,"Hello I want to report your channel #nginx on Freenode IRC server, I saw you have listed that channel as official helping channel for Nginx. I will be short I just want to say something honestly. I have experience with a lot of ""helping"" channels there, I cannot say all but most of them have officials who have big personal issues. I will say what happened. I am using Nginx for some time now, I needed to make complex rewrite directive. I have read 2 Nginx books and read Rewrite module manual but couldn't make the rewrite liek it should be. So I honestly asked for help on channel #nginx on Freenode IRC server. One guy insulted me in very harsh way so I told him I will not beg for help at all costs and to stop insulting me, then shrotly after that a lot people in the channel jumped on me like dogs :) (yeah I told you personal problems.. ) they said ""he is regular here and who are you..? etc."" so I ignored one by one and waited for mute or ban on the channel (as my experience is like this with almost all channels on Freenode IRC server - they abuse power to insult if you counter them they will ban you) so after 10 or more hours of asking the same question again if someone can help me, I got replies from 6-7 people who didn't even saw what I am asking I guess, they posted some links from which 2 were total trash, and one was link that was of no help. I am well aware that they don't know how to do what I was asking or they don't care. When I said that the links were of no use I got muted on the channel.. I am not sure how they are related to Nginx but I saw you listed their IRC channel on your website so I wanted you to know with who you are dealing here.. That is all.",defect,closed,trivial,,other,,fixed,wiki,,n/a,n/a