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wirelessduck [soylentnews.org] writes:

There have been several allegations of this since the handover of the Freenode infrastructure to its new custodians, but I can now provide a first-hand account of one incident — because I am the victim of it.

A channel which I registered, ##hntop, has been taken over by Andrew Lee (rasengan) without my knowledge or consent.

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Conclusions. In other words, it appears that a Freenode services admin, presumably rasengan,

• forcibly dropped the channel and reregistered it so as to put themselves in control of it, and render me no longer in control of it;
• clearly did this with the express purpose of frustrating an attempt by that channel's founder (me) to relocate it to another IRC network; and
• cover up the fact that I had sought to do so.

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