Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24489208-20140101202811/@comment-3076045-20140105134815

Flugsmith wrote: Speysider wrote:

Flugsmith wrote: Although, sometimes users leave and rejoin, due to not being able to gain a good connection, or the chat continuously freezing. As long as it is clear that they do have connection and are interacting in the chat, then this is necessary. You should take care not to block someone for something that is not their fault. If it's just sporadic, that's fine. Intermittent breakages in the connection is fine. What I'm talking about is people who deliberately join the chat, leave and repeat over and over every 5 seconds and essentially flood the message area with a long line of "X left the chat" and "X joined the chat". That's bad. Yes I agree, it is annoying, pointless and the user deserves to be kicked if it is purposeful. You should make sure though, don't be trigger-happy on that kick button. Okay. Good :)

One of the places I lived in was ridiculously bad for internet connections, and often it would be like that when tyring to connect to irc. I was worried because we dont really want to be saying "you cant join the chat because sometimes you have a bad internet connection".

As a general rule though, normally its about 20-30 seconds before it gives up and cuts you out, so it should be fairly obvious that if its 5 seconds, it is deliberate. (Unless you have insanely impractical internet connection settings, that is). And if so, why?

Anyways - as long as its not punishing accidental then I'm all for it again.

(For future reference - this is why its good to involve the whole community - it avoids misconceptions like the one I just made :)