FTR I believe I am still the only person with the highest level of privileges on that channel. I have never heard of any of this.
Can you strip privileges from users? Somebody's anonymously operating the opped Peacebringer bot and IMO abusing their privileges by banning people without bothering to explain the reason and refusing to reconsider their decisions, even though most of the folks on the channel clearly disagree with it.
(active discussion between Logos01 and some channel participants)
10:50 -!- mode/#lesswrong [+b !@unaffiliated/logos01] by Peacebringer
10:50 <@Peacebringer> and that's enough Logos01 for this century
10:50 < katydee> Uh, what?
10:53 <@Peacebringer&...
#lesswrong on Freenode, which used to be the official unofficial LessWrong channel, has been re-designated as a private hangout reserved for, roughly, ggreer/AngryParsley, efm, realitygrill, rsaarelm, ksotala, gwern, Grognor, chelz, cwillu, Boxo, nshepperd, ivan, mstevens, and jandrog. You're still welcome to speak there, but only if whatever you're saying is interesting/important to one of them and the op.
For less constrained conversation, go to #lesswrong-alt (unregistered; recommended by #lesswrong's op), also on Freenode.
EDIT: #lesswrong's rules have been changed to "behave like decent human beings, give ops liberally to channel regulars, don't ban without warning or if most people disagree". This PSA is hereby retracted.