This is entirely news to me. I was not spoken to about this at all. I think it might be due to my logging on today, but I had deadminned anyway because I rolled traitor and I really wasn'tLaharlMontgommery has rejoined as a trial admin. bgobandit has been removed for failing to comply with policy (must be in IRC while adminning).
As I have said on multiple occasions, there are a number of factors at work here:
1. My Internet is shit. My Internet has been shit basically for forever. I think right now I have the most connections on the server (either me or Reed Glover, I forgot whether I overpassed him) in a comparatively short amount of time because of the sheer extent to which my internet is shit and forces me to restart the client. I'm literally typing this on an iPhone connection because my internet connection currently does not work. When your Internet is shit, that means that whenever it decides to fuck up, you disconnect from whatever persistent connections are running, which includes IRC. And because #adminbus is a protected channel, you do not automatically rejoin it when my IRC client (Kiwi, for whatever it's worth) reloads it, if it reloads it at all, which it does not always do. A huge chunk of my supposedly not being in IRC is due to this.
1a. Apparently this is from the .seen thing, over the past two days. As many of you have noticed I've been around a lot less due to taking a calculus class over the summer. (This isn't news, I announced it at least a month ago.) So I don't really remember when I was around and when I was not, but I do know that a couple of those days I was playing the game instead of adminning (such as this morning, I deadminned due to rolling traitor). I probably answered a couple adminhelps, but on instinct -- there's been a crackdown on admins AFKing and ignoring adminhelps -- and nothing involving bans. It wouldn't have been as any kind of ~*crusade*~, at any rate; either I forgot on whatever instance it was, or I was playing the game as a player instead of an admin. You know, the thing that people continually complain admins don't do enough of.
2. Literally nothing of value happens on the #adminbus IRC channel. Seriously: nothing. 90% of the "discussion" is bots pointing out when the emergency shuttle has docked on Sibyl or Basil. Most relevant discussion happens on the forums or in asay. This has been pointed out on numerous occasions and yet the only reason that has been given as to why this is policy in the first place is "because it's tradition" and "because I said so." (It's also, to my knowledge, the only such policy. To my knowledge coders aren't required to be in #coderbus. I don't think there's any such thing for forum admins/moderators.)
3. There are a number of reasons why I do not feel comfortable in the IRC channels associated with the server. This is pretty much across the board. I'm not the only admin who feels this way, in fact I can name several.
3a. (For that matter, I'm not the only admin who isn't in IRC on a regular basis, yet I'm the only one deadminned here. I realize a lot of you have no way of knowing this, but the reason is probably because I posted a thread on the admin forums -- look at these hot leaks, very wow -- where others admitted as much.)
4. I was not spoken to, warned, or otherwise informed at all that this was on the horizon, which seems a bit shit to me.
5. Absolutely none of this has had any impact whatsover on my administrating the server, i.e. dealing with players. I don't think I've ever had any real (i.e. not salty over a ban) admin complaints leveled against me, which is more than a lot of people can say. As you know, the barrier for being deadminned is incredibly high to the point where almost no one ever is -- Oldman getting re-trialminned for spawning megafauna was basically an anomaly. There are other cases, such as silently checking antagonists while playing (I'm not going into detail here, but there have been cases), where not even a warning was given.
5. I think it goes without saying that there may be a personal grudge at work here, unless we have all forgotten the "deranged" incident.