I guess we'll just have to live with the snappy comments. Although I don't like this kind of attitude.

I can understand why people have their issues with irc. It's complicated and people tend to be not overly frienly in some channels. Try DB's channel for example, I guess that's the number one place if you want to check how fast one can be banned/kicked whatever.
But there are still others that are friendly places that offer a lot of help to irc newbies. I was kicked around a few times, too, but now I wouldn't want quit using irc since it's faster than BT for me.

*lol* Suzumiya Haruhi it is. I know you like Kyon just as much as I do. Tomokazu Sugita is amazing. He voices so many interesting roles. I'll never forget pouting Gin-san (after reading his JUMP) in Gintama: 'I want bankai, too!'