Sonic Retro IRC channel
From Sonic Retro
#S2B is the official IRC channel for The Sonic 2 Beta Page (formerly Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta). Its current location is on the Sonic CulT server.
S2B's Tech Members used to be generally automatically given op status within the channel, a power structure which often resulted in more ops than 'ordinary' members. It also rendered op powers essentially meaningless, since a majority of the regular users have them. Due to various reasons, this structure was abandoned in 2006, and the channel currently has five or six ops.
#S2B also has a more 'informal' nature than the S2B forums, leading to things that would not be tolerated on the forums being accepted in IRC chat: frequent meme usage, 1337 h@xxor ch4t!, and so on. Most prominently, those banned on the forum (for example Wetflame) can join the chat freely.
Server History
The channel was first located on the AfterNET IRC Network and registered under Voice's name. In April 2006, the channel moved to CulTNET, the server for Sonic CulT. Sazpaimon set up a special sub-server for SWS2B that lacked fsay capabilities.
On June 12, 2006, the channel moved to the Tetraq IRC server.
In September 2006, the channel was given official status and moved back to the Sonic CulT server.