Having been witness to the quoted events, I really think you are reading far too much into this - At the time when all of this happened, you were chatting at a mile per minute and I think the problem which you experienced is more likely to be some sort of anti-flooding or caching issue rather than an active removal of chatterbox permissions.

Anyhow, the feature to remove a users' ability to use the chatterbox has existed for power users for quite some time - When this happens, the Nodereaper swallows them whole and the users reside in Borg's Belly for a period of 15 minutes (IIRC) before having chatterbox permissions restored.

 

By the way, you did get tye's permission to quote him in this post didn't you? Because quoting from the chatterbox without permission really isn't a done thing ... :-)

 

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