Okay. I was directed here, and while I do not want to get involved in the drama, I think I have the responsibility to try and explain a little bit more. Sam made her post without my knowledge, and I was rather annoyed with her when I saw it, but I really can't control people, especially someone that close to me. It's done with, it can't be taken back, and all I can do is try to provide some more information from my perspective on why this happened, as it's not as simple as some people think.
A portion of it is my own fault. I don't know all the specifics of why Xeno and Nadia felt I made a bad admin and had to be removed from that position, but I do know some of them. And for the sake of fairness, I will be honest about what I have been told.
It was revealed to me that Xeno and Nadia had been talking for some time about how to handle this situation. Xeno felt that I didn't listen to his opinions very much and tried pushing my ideas on him far too often. There were also some instances when I was rather hard on the staff if someone made an obvious mistake, or wasn't doing something as instructed. I didn't find myself taking things out on them constantly, at least I don't think I did. But the few times it did happen, there was talk that I should be removed. Xeno refused.
Nadia and I did not get along well most of the time, and that may also have played a role, but I cannot be certain. I know the largest part of it seemed to be, from what I was told, that I was making things hard on Xeno due to the previously mentioned factors. But both of them were unsure of how to explain it, so it went unmentioned for a rather long time. It didn't come out until recently, when Nadia explained to me that she had certain access that I did not know about. When I explained to her that I felt it was wrong, and she refused to step down, I told her that I had few choices as to what I could do (in my mind: 1. Leave, 2. Deal with it, 3. Go get advice and wait it out). I refused to tell her what I was thinking, however, and she assumed I was making a threat on the server. That is when I was locked out.
The channel ops things was the icing on the cake for them, but not nearly the full reason as to why this occurred. It was already being discussed and Nadia felt her hand was forced when she misunderstood my comment. Xeno was upset that I asked him to remove the ops from his scripts, which reminded him of all the other times I persuaded him to do things he didn't want to do. Nadia felt I was doing it out of pure spite and not because of my sense of protocol and organization. A lot of misunderstandings all around, which were never able to truly be rectified.
So I am not blameless. I wasn't the grand admin some people think I was, I just tried my best to do what I thought was best for the site. It just wasn't the sort of thing Xeno and Nadia agreed with and they felt it was wrong. And really, I don't have many reasons to complain, since the site legally belongs to the server owner, and he had given control over to them. So it was really their call. Right or wrong really isn't the issue. They just did what they felt needed to be done. I had the option to stay around if I took a demotion to Senior Mod, which would have meant a demotion for Gravecat, I assume. I couldn't justify it, or the frustration involved, so I decided it was best to just leave.
So, bottom line: It wasn't some random thing, and it wasn't based on one or two events. It was based off a feeling that I wasn't good in the position I was in due to some of the mistakes I had made. There may be other things, but if so, I don't recall what they are or was not made aware of them.
Hopefully all of this can calm down now and everyone can just go back to whatever they were interested in beforehand. I'm only making this post in an attempt to explain things better and in an act of good will. If I left something out, Xeno and Nadia can feel free to explain it at a later time.
