This is not the situation I was expecting to be called back to this forum, but I have something that I feel I must add. Feel free to call me biased, as I will not pretend I do not have a personal issue with Brendan.
The facts:
Let the record show that Brendan "monopolised" the admin account after I, personally, accused him of being out of line as a moderator and officially considered him a threat to the well-being of this forum.
Brendan deleted my posts that showed dissenting opinions. I requested that he followed
official staff policy and instead move them just as everyone else did. Let the record show that I did not return the favour.
Brendan edited my posts, for similar reasons. Let the record show that I did not humour him by doing the same thing.
Brendan threatened me in PM as follows, CCed to the then-active moderators:
Finally; please consider this conversation an official warning, and be advised that any further trolling from you will have permanent consequences.
After that I created a thread in the moderator forum asking for a external opinion regarding what could be seen as my words versus Brendan's, and then mostly ceased activity here - after all anything I might say could be taken as an escalation and any technical authority was already removed. That thread remained for at least a few months of lurking, but now it shows that it too was deleted.
Most of the falsehoods from Brendan in this specific thread have been addressed. I like to add one: until my exit happened, I would like to contest the fact that Brendan has the right to consider himself sole moderator. I would even contest for the fact that I was actually the
more active moderator in that period.
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Some afterthoughts;
In a sense, I see this thread as a sort of vindication, that after two years my moderator peers put Brendan, and not me, in the wrong.
Also, since Iansjack rejected up front, I no longer see a reason to keep it a secret that he was in fact nominated for moderator at one point.
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