I think having an IRC channel would be great. I would certainly make use of it as an admin. One of the handy things about an IRC channel is to be able to kick/ban from IRC itself, you could set it up so the cheater reports would appear in the IRC channel so if there is ever a need to ban some retard with a speed hack breaking records, you will know about it and you would be able to ban from the channel if needed or login and ban/kick. I remember XR had this and even though you may think it was not used, it was used quite a bit and I found it quite useful to have, especially considering how popular UK server is nowdays.