blog: keep the ops opped

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+title: "Keep the ops opped"
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+tags: [irc, english]
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+Why I think that you should keep the ops opped instead of following
+freenode's recommendations.
+
+*Tired blogging, this will probably have a need for lot of fixing after I
+am more awake if I ever am...*
+
+Is there issue with your channel? What will people do? They will go to
+some other channel to say that there is spam on your channel forgetting
+to ping you about it.
+
+Yes, of course there is `/msg chanserv access #channel list`, but who
+really uses that, especially from newer users? Probably no one and if
+you have larger channel with multiple ops, it requires whoising the
+whole lot of you to see who is not away and has lower idle time (even if
+the idletime might not mean anything if the op uses OTR and other reasons).
+
+And there is also the issue of having to trust services or your bots.
+What if the services go down or netsplit and the same happens to your bot?
+You are out of luck unless you had the ops opped in which case the outage
+doesn't affect you that much at all.