Once again, kossacks can join our
live chat tonite during the last presidential debate. We've had so much fun during the debates and our chatroom has been overflowing! The comments fly by faster than a speeding bullet and, of course, are always made enjoyable with the special kind of dKos wit we all love. We've had 175-200 people chatting, which is a phenomenal turnout! Just a reminder: the room is always open 24/7 so visit us often!
Once the debate is done, we immediately post links of polls to freep as well as immediate debate reaction ("spin") from many sources.
Here's how you can join us: (It's easy. Trust me!)
The chatroom is set up on the IRC network
EFnet and the channel is called
#dailykos. You can click directly on that channel link if you already have an IRC client installed. If you need an IRC client, try
mIRC (free trial). Download and install that program, and once you start it up it will ask for a little bit of information. Fill out the nickname you would like to use, and the name you would like people to be able to see, and go to the server tab and select an EFnet server from the dropdown box. I personally use irc.blessed.net or irc.he.net, although any of the servers are fine. If you then hit connect to server, that should work, although you can alternatively type
/server irc.blessed.net
in the main status window. You should then connect to the server, and up will pop a channel join box. Type in #dailykos and then click Join, or type /join #dailykos and you should be in.
For mac users:
This looks like the easiest to use mac IRC client: Snak.
And a word from kolors, the #dailykos room head honcho:
You'll see a handful of people with @'s in front of their names, those are operators who administrate the channel, change the topic, kick out rude users, etc. If the channel gets large enough and there are too many side conversations (e.g. during the debates), the operators may set the channel mode to 'moderated', preventing anyone without an @ or a + in front of their name from speaking. In that case, we will 'voice' users who are registered daily kos members (give them a + in front of their name) and allow these users to talk.
That's about all I think there is to IRC, so hopefully you'll all join us and we can once again become an effective rapid response team for Kerry/Edwards.
See you there!