Idle

Idling ( engl. to idle = lazy, run at idle, laze away ) denotes the inaction of a user over an extended period in a chat room. The most often used the term in connection with the Internet Relay Chat ( IRC) or other chat systems. And a computer is referred to as idle when the main processor has not work through processes and is idling. The amount of time that has passed since the last activity is called idletime.

Reasons for prolonged Idling in chats are mostly a distraction of chatter by other activities on the computer or the physical absence from the computer. When IRC users are logged frequently automatically when your computer is turned on and connected to the Internet without really chatting with. Also widespread is the use of bouncers that are logged around the clock instead of the user on IRC in and idle there.

In some IRC networks and channels the excessive Idling is not welcome. For this reason, some IRC scripts set the idletime regularly back by the user send at irregular intervals even a message. This allows the user to conceal a possibly excessive Idling, but even if he is just present or not.

Meanwhile, the verb is Idling increasingly also in the sense of " to reside in a ( IRC ) channel " used. Here, it is immaterial whether the user is active or inactive. Thus one finds in larger IRC networks, for example, often the call, in a newly created channel to " Idling " to help the owner to reach a certain number of users who need to create a for by the operators of the network provided IRC bot request. This request for " Idling " does not mean that you have to behave, in question in inactive channel. On the other hand, suggests the formulation but also that it is sufficient to be present in the channel, and active participation is not mandatory.

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