Here's a little bit more, for the record. Copied from my "return" thread.
Aussie wrote:About correct. More like a fortnight from when AM locked out Shrink until he was made to confront that no-one wanted him, and that he had made himself a leper.
You are such a liar, Aussie. The period for which I took control was less than 48 hours.
Cute rationale and re-write. I did not have a gun at his head when he tried to steal PA...just like he stole his position as equal to Shrink.
I didn't steal anything. Here's what actually happened:
After being trolled and personally abused for years, and tolerating it all, I finally spat the dummy. About half of all the PA mods have done this at times.
I had earlier related how I had recently been in intensive care for eight days, after suffering a perforated ulcer. I was very near to death for some time.
Swami Dring took this as an opportunity to taunt me, repeatedly. In a very nasty personal way.
However, Swami and Aussie were personally protected by Dr Shrink. He wouldn't let me sanction them according to the rules. DrShrink thought he owned the board, though in fact the real owner at that time was Romeo. I kepy my peace for the sake of not rocking the boat.
However, eventually the constant harassment and the fact that I couldn't use my admin powers to enforce the rules, were too much, and I flipped out. One night I just deleted Swami's account, though not his posts.
The next morning, I logged in to find that Dr Shrink had, without consulting anyone, unilaterally removed my admin and moderator privileges. He had no right to do that, because he and I had been appointed as equals by Romeo.
Dr Shrink had obviously forgotten this. Moreover, as I discovered, he had also forgotten the
original admin account, which was, oddly enough, named "admin". It was this account to which Romeo had given both of us the passwords, making us co-equal administrators.
I had not forgotten this account, nor its password, nor the reasons why we both had been granted equal access. Since Dr Shrink had violated the status quo by unilaterally locking me out, I felt it appropriate to access the
original admin account, using the
original password that had been granted to both of us by Romeo, the actual owner of that board.
And so in turn, I locked out Dr Shrink. Unlike him, though, I did it properly, so he couldn't get back in like I had.
By this time, I had decided to leave. I ran the forum as sole administrator for a day or so, appointing boxy as a moderator. I said I intended to leave, and I did - after making boxy admin in my place. boxy subsequently restored Dr Shrink's position.
There was no great public backlash. It was just Aussie whining because his protector and enabler had been locked out for a short while. I didn't even ban Aussie, which was well within my power to do.
I just handed over power to boxy, and left. Which was what I said I'd do.