So why away nick on irc sucks? There is couple of good reasons…

• Spam – If you are on couple channels and use away lots… You generate lots of unwated spam to channels/queries.
• Wrong nick – if you use away nick and someone wants to contact you. He uses /whois and it looks like you are not at your computer…
• Someone can stole your nick – And talk as he would be you…
• Who cares? – 99% of people don’t want to know what you are doing. If they want, they can see it in your away status.

Use /away command!

Just type “/away <reason>” and you don’t generate spam, annoy people and just be stupid. When you use away and someone uses /whois at you, they see why you are away, some networks even give idle time.

So please, don’t use the away nick.