Umm.
Just so everyone knows, I didn't see those rules being drafted and don't really agree with them. (The intent may be good, but they come off sounding as a little dictatorial. In general I feel that the channel has worked fine without explicit rules of that kind, and I get a bit of a "let's make rules for the sake of making rules" vibe from the various rule variants that have been enacted at various times.)
#lesswrong on Freenode, which used to be the official unofficial LessWrong channel, has been re-designated as a private hangout reserved for, roughly, ggreer/AngryParsley, efm, realitygrill, rsaarelm, ksotala, gwern, Grognor, chelz, cwillu, Boxo, nshepperd, ivan, mstevens, and jandrog. You're still welcome to speak there, but only if whatever you're saying is interesting/important to one of them and the op.
For less constrained conversation, go to #lesswrong-alt (unregistered; recommended by #lesswrong's op), also on Freenode.
EDIT: #lesswrong's rules have been changed to "behave like decent human beings, give ops liberally to channel regulars, don't ban without warning or if most people disagree". This PSA is hereby retracted.