I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
This is why we can't have nice things.<p>IRC is a constant drama, all the way back to The Great Split[0]<p>Been involved with IRC a good 25 years, running a pretty popular blog about it "back in the days", i just couldn't be bothered keeping it up and updated because of all the constant fighting, arguing, bickering and people outright attacking each other all the damn time.<p>I'm not entirely sure what it is, but something about IRC gives people big egos, omnipotence fantasies which, again, leads to drama - i, myself, just concluded it wasn't worth my time anymore and moved on.<p>Mind you, this comes from someone who met his (former) wife on IRC, made great friendships with people all over the world - something i'm still grateful for to this very day.<p>But it wasn't made to last, sadly.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.irc.org/history_docs/TheGreatSplit.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.irc.org/history_docs/TheGreatSplit.html</a>