Quatrarius, Elizabeth is right, IRC is very hit or miss. It's often out of site, out of mind for me and I would imagine others too. That is why we have been discussing creating/hosting our own Hubski IRC and having it be more readily available at all times on the site. We've only just begun discussing this, and if we do it, it will be post "rewrite." We used to have the #hubskidrinkclub which was usually every other Monday night or so. We would choose a beverage and discuss it. For example "pinot noir, gin, mead, whiskey" have all been past beverages chosen. It starts out as people discussing what we are drinking and then morphs in to general conversation. It was a lot of fun. ecib sort of spearheaded the conversations. We should start that back up again. Former participants include elizabeth, OftenBen, flagamuffin, ecib, humanodon, lil, cW, wasoxygen, mk, b_b, _refugee_,insomniasexx, zebra2, ijustcantanymore, Meriadoc, sounds_sound, cgod, steve (decaf-tea) coffeesp00ns, ButterflyEffect, forwardslash beezneez I know I'm forgetting people. But what say you all? You want to give Hubski Drink Club another go? Who wants to pick a beverage? Any suggestions? Sorry to take over your thread Quatrarius.
A dedicated Hubski IRC would be the best outcome. I do not drink, but any thing that starts speech would be good.
Drink club is great. Pretty much if I see a post saying "I'm on IRC tonigjt," is enough for me to hop on though, drinks are secondary to that. Edit: suggestion as follows: drinks to get you through the dead of winter.
I do miss drink club, but I have to say...Monday night for a drink club is a bit of a tactical error I learned :) I don't think you need a drink club as an excuse to IRC, but it's cool to have a 'topic' that people can sit around and let it wander from there. We never had a drink club IRC where there weren't plenty of people not drinking, or drinking off topic, or just hanging out and wall-flowering. I thought is always flowed pretty well. See what I did there. We should kick it up again on a Friday or Sat night imo...
That all sounds fine to me. Why don't we do a drink club and begin it mid March? Or you can begin it sooner, but I will be out of town till then. You want to own this?