Forum:IRC and administrators

Recently in Damac1214's RfA, an argument broke out over whether or not IRC mattered or not in an oppose vote given.

So I want to use this forum to discuss whether what happens on IRC should be able to affect the outcome of an RfA, or the converse, a request to desysop someone. Should we care about IRC? Or should we treat it as something which doesn't matter compared to the wiki.

Points to consider:


 * The IRC channel is affiliated with the wiki, though it is not officially affiliated with Wikia
 * The IRC channel is run by the wiki's admins
 * The IRC channel is used by many people who do not use/have an account on the wiki
 * The IRC channel is entirely off-site, it is not under the .wikia.com domain

So should we care if someone does something wrong in IRC when looking at an admin candidate? Or should we just discount IRC as something that's off-site enough to not really matter?

19:23, January 6, 2012 (UTC)