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by reggegg 1567 days ago
Also something that goes very well with this is the age old saying, "just ask, don't ask to ask".

I always find it a bit annoying when people approach in chats just to ask if they can ask something.

Especially back in the days (yes) of IRC it was annoying because messages on a channel tend to easily drown in other messages