ishmael: I speak as an ex-OPN staffer who volunteered his time to try and further the network. I left several weeks ago, immensely frustrated. The technical side of it is fine, but lilo runs it as his own personal fiefdom, +q'ing or K:lining anyone who gets in his way. Publically, I always stood behind lilo 100% during my time as staff.opn, and took everything up with him in private. If anyone says anything that isn't "lilo rocks", they get removed from either the network or #openprojects; when 10 staff bang their heads together and come up with a large document, it's "isolated". 10 staff? Isolated? I think not. It's issues like this that led myself and others to leave OPN staff, and I can't see myself ever going back unless lilo does a triple-pike backflip.

slef: I resigned from OPN staff weeks ago, and my attempts to tell lilo exactly why have been interepreted as "trolling". (I will not state what I said, or read, here for Rob's and OPN's sake, but it's ... enough to make me resign). I've been silenced for some time, I've now given up on Rob. Also, if a ban has a % in front of it, that means it's not an actual ban, just "quiet" - you're silenced in that channel. It's the equivalent of not having +v in a +m channel.