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No, they don’t. Server owners may be tapped for a staff role, but the roles of staffer and facilities host are as separate as we can make them. On most IRC networks, the roles are combined, which often results in heavy IRC politics and uneven service. We can’t eliminate politics, but we do our best to minimize the effect of such activity on the network.
