Wow, just saw a new peak in "join IRC channel, post message, leave": Leaving with an insult (homophobic one at that of course).
People aren't machines, they don't answer immediately, imagine joining an AFK room full of people doing something else and being so much of an impatient shit that you can't wait until one of them is done?
It's a huge cultural gap and the way it shows is an horrible spotlight where groups of people are expected by strangers to answer under 5~15 minutes, thus making other people preemptive over anything.
And yeah, BBS/Usenet are great, I wish to implement a modern NNTP server at some point.