Talk:Task:maemo.org IRC cloaks
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| - | Maybe I'm stupid, and I rarely use IRC. ;-) But what is a "cloak" and why would I want it. | + | Maybe I'm stupid, and I rarely use IRC. ;-) But what is a "cloak" and why would I want it. —[[User:Nathanael]] |
| + | :Wikipedia has a useful overview: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks Essentially it provides 3 things: | ||
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| + | # Privacy, since your IP is no longer displayed for all of the world. | ||
| + | # Bling, since you know you've arrived when you've got a maemo.org cloak. ;) | ||
| + | # Identification, it helps other users spot important and useful people in the organization. | ||
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| + | [[User:generalantilles|GeneralAntilles]] 19:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 19:49, 20 October 2009
Maybe I'm stupid, and I rarely use IRC. ;-) But what is a "cloak" and why would I want it. —User:Nathanael
- Wikipedia has a useful overview: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks Essentially it provides 3 things:
- Privacy, since your IP is no longer displayed for all of the world.
- Bling, since you know you've arrived when you've got a maemo.org cloak. ;)
- Identification, it helps other users spot important and useful people in the organization.
GeneralAntilles 19:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC)