I personally agree with this 100%.  #Omnimaga needs to be a place free of hostility, and if it can't be, then unfortunately there will be consequences.  If you want there to be a #omnimaga in the future, please remember that everyone has feelings, and remember not to troll.  Thank you.

I just read the link and from the little piece that I saw of the conflict, and I agree that momrocker was being a little rude and narrow minded, and probably has no idea what you personally have accomplished without functions etc in the past. I don't think Ashbad was trying to be though, from how I read it, it seems to me like he honestly was just trying to help.
momrocker does seem like one of those people who don't fit in here that well because of no inner filter and not thinking about how others feel.
I probably missed some more of what happened too so please excuse me if I did.
I wish that there was a better way to make sure people who join the forums read the rules
I'm starting to wonder if we should do some restructuring on IRC. Maybe making two channels. One set to +m and only members who have been here for a long time can idle in, and another open to new members and after a while we can allow them access to the other channel. This way the new members can still get help, but they wont disrupt the flow of things in the other channel and cause as many problems. Of course I'm not sure if this idea would really work that well

It's always hard dealing with a large influx of new members and it's easy to get discouraged when not many of them follow our standards that well. We have to be patient though, although I know it's sure hard for me sometimes. I've lost my temper once or twice on IRC, but luckily I'm ok at figuring out when I need to stop and just take a break for a little bit, although I usually wait a little too long before realizing

I really wish I hadn't missed everything

I don't think we should split the channels but maybe a temporary closing or making the current chan only available for chat to admins/mods for a while, with no OmnomIRC.

As for the link what pisses me off the most is that it's not even the reason why I banned him. He claims I banned him because he was trying to help me. This is outright libel.

graph, anyone can join a channel that's +m. You just can't speak unless you're +v (voiced), +o (op'd), or both. You might be confusing it with +i (invite-only) or +k (channel key set).
+m is fine with me. The order for offenders would then be warn, -v (devoice), and kick/ban. A second channel only if necessary, IMO (though it just might be, and Eeems's idea sounds all right).
As for momrocker's link, DJ's ban seemed a bit early, and the warnings to momrocker seemed nonexistent. Maybe we could have tried to explain things a bit more? (Though I think we're still on a no-warn policy ) Before anyone takes my post in the wrong light, I'm not necessarily supporting momrocker. Not sure who to support, really, (presumably DJ and everyone), because I haven't been here for a while
So, TL;DR, Graph, look up; Eeems's idea sounds nice; I'm not sure about what to do with momrocker; and I need to be here more often.

right, but I'm saying if someone didn't want to constantly voice, there should be a bot who handles voicing known users.

EDIT: Way to ninja.

Ah, right. Well, there's normally an op around, at least.

Yeah but we already tried that, to no avail. People don,t bother to ident and stuff.

I would ident if I know my netbot45 password...