> What was the point of spending years as a productive administrator, making tens of thousands of edits and logging thousands of actions, to implode the whole thing over a pointless argument on an RfA talk page?
Maybe they just honestly enjoyed the work, then they didn't feel like it anymore, and banned themselves.
It let them have the last laugh - they just kept doing what they wanted even after being banned, then ended it on their own terms when they felt like it.
It's not like they lost anything, except the opportunity to perform unpaid work and get more articles written about them from people who cannot fathom someone would voluntarily relinquish some meaningless position.
Maybe they just honestly enjoyed the work, then they didn't feel like it anymore, and banned themselves.
It let them have the last laugh - they just kept doing what they wanted even after being banned, then ended it on their own terms when they felt like it.
It's not like they lost anything, except the opportunity to perform unpaid work and get more articles written about them from people who cannot fathom someone would voluntarily relinquish some meaningless position.