Thanks, auntdeen. I was thinking that the tinyURL would be more visible if it went first. But now that you mention it, I think it may work better the other way around.
If the decision is made to try this approach, we'll do some experimenting in group and see what works best. There are several ways we might format all this info, and it's not obvious to me what the best choice will be.
I'm curious why you think the "ops" have any say in what is allowed on the IRC channels.
If there was an abdication of control of the IRC servers by the fold.it staff, I didn't see any notice of that.
I believe the role of the moderators is to enforce policy, not make policy.
I'm sure one of more of them will chime in on this. However, it would be nice if teh foild.it staff would also grace us with an opinion on the proliferation, quality and types of bots that will or will not be allowed on the public project channels.
I have no issue if some team wants to pollute their group channel with the noise from endless bots, but #Global is already more than "noisy" enough.
The clickable links issue is now being addressed:
In game chat doesn't allow clicking URLs - http://fold.it/portal/node/988174#comment-15220
Good question. The answer is, it was just an assumption on my part. As an IRC user, I generally figure that the ops are in charge – at least, as you say, to the extent of enforcing the rules. I also assume that if there are questions about policy, they are the ones who know the people to ask and will make the necessary inquiries on my behalf.
It doesn't necessarily work that way, of course. But if the ops are not the people to ask, then they can direct me appropriately. Or you can, if you like: who should I direct the query to?
Beta-helix or Jflat