By doing what you have just done, you have shown every FOSS project that you cannot be trusted, are vindictive and will retaliate against any project using your service for any perceived slight.
You are everything you accused ex Staffers of being: An abusive operator with a massive chip on his shoulder. You are too immature to be trusted to run one channel, nevermind an entire IRC network.
You are poison and everything you touch will die. Freenode will not be the exception.
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Decided to go through and grep my irssi logs.
Andy, remember saying this in #freenode about ten days ago?
08:57 < rasengan> You ban abusively, and haven’t really helped freenode at all until now. Freenode policies have been shaped for you and your posse to extract value and now you’re holding it hostage while asking people to go to another network.
Aged like fine milk, that one...
Banning abusively...
Haven't really helped Freenode...
Freenode policies being shaped for you and your posse...
Holding it hostage...
I'd ask you if all of this is really what you want to be remembered for, but the more important thing is that we're all going to get on just fine without you.
Agreed. I thought last week that all this was a tempest in a teapot and I wasn’t going to bother thinking about it. Today’s drama is a pretty convincing demonstration that Freenode is not a stable place to hold discussions any more. There’s plenty of other irc networks out there.
You are everything you accused ex Staffers of being: An abusive operator with a massive chip on his shoulder. You are too immature to be trusted to run one channel, nevermind an entire IRC network.
You are poison and everything you touch will die. Freenode will not be the exception.
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Decided to go through and grep my irssi logs.
Andy, remember saying this in #freenode about ten days ago?
08:57 < rasengan> You ban abusively, and haven’t really helped freenode at all until now. Freenode policies have been shaped for you and your posse to extract value and now you’re holding it hostage while asking people to go to another network.
Aged like fine milk, that one...
Banning abusively... Haven't really helped Freenode... Freenode policies being shaped for you and your posse... Holding it hostage...
I'd ask you if all of this is really what you want to be remembered for, but the more important thing is that we're all going to get on just fine without you.