Sorry, but I had no time to read 18 pages before to check if my suggestions about IRC have been already said.
However, as my first post to this discussion, I would like to state again that realm-only channels on IRC and a general #battlemaster channel on IRC are as much OOC as this game can handle, obviously, and is my opinion on how to solve and prevent many problems.
I think as many people have bad experiences of and opinions about IRC as the Forum. There's no reason to preference one over another in terms of administering the game.
