This is just a short message to the few visitors we get in the IRC Channel.
Specificly, the ones that get a tad... shall we say "annoyed" that people don't respond to them immediately.
There's a few things you need to understand about IRC, and the global nature of the internet in general.
I'll give examples from my situation - other's situation
#1 - A nickname in a channel does not mean that person is actually at their PC, looking in the Sennadar channel and paying attention right at that moment. It's usually called Idling to the IRC regulars.
#2 - The internet can be accessed now by people from all over the planet - not just your region/country/etc.
#3 - The people who do idle in the channel also have jobs/work/school/etc - So the amount of time we can spend on IRC actively participating is probably limited.
#4 - There's very few people actually in the channel at any one point.
Unless everyone is in similar timezones, and/or has similar schedules - this will mean there are big gaps between active discussions.
For example, this is one recent series of events:
[08:08] * Joins: JohnSmith (smith@127-0-0-1.yes.we.can.see.your.ip.example.net)
[08:08] <JohnSmith> greeetings all
[08:08] <JohnSmith> hello?
[08:10] <JohnSmith> All these people, and no one is speaking to me?
[08:10] <JohnSmith> As a writer, all I can say is this is a screwy way to treat someone
[08:10] <JohnSmith> good day to you all
[08:10] * Parts: JohnSmith (smith@127-0-0-1.yes.we.can.see.your.ip.example.net)
followed by
[00:40] * Joins: JohnSmith (smith@127-0-0-1.yes.we.can.see.your.ip.example.net)
[00:41] <JohnSmith> anyone alive in this room?
[00:41] <JohnSmith> unreal
[00:42] * Quits: JohnSmith (smith@127-0-0-1.yes.we.can.see.your.ip.example.net) (Client Quit)
Don't get offended - we wern't ignoring you deliberately - we just wern't there.
Oh, and fwiw - you did get a few responses to the first join/part.
[08:40] <Person1> hnn
[08:40] <Person1> they dont realize we rarely speak in here
[11:50] <Person2> and that two mins is really not enought time to even knowtice someone here, never mind that wer all afk
[11:50] <Person2> notice*whatever
...and yes, that's about the bulk of the activity between the two posts in question.
(Off to bed)