Yeah, I don't know if people are just trolling the thread for kicks now or what. The thread's obviously through though, so I'll try to stick to the more important points here so everything's clear:
1) I posted before what I thought was a reasonable way for the IRC channel to be relinked if they still want to be relinked. Captain Mayday might have missed it or I might have missed his reply or whatever. Doesn't matter. Regardless of what he wants to do now, I'll relink the channel tonight, drop by there sometime, and if people don't want me around I'll split and unlink it. Simple enough.
2) I find it impossible to equate my previous characterization of the chat log with the comments in the chat log and am not going to apologize for it on the same terms, though obviously this thread has gone all to hell, so I could have handled something better. I'll apologize again for leaving the non-forum IRC people hanging.
3) I've rarely been on the IRC channel over the past year and am much like a guest when I'm there, even if people tend to OP me, and I don't own the channel. In that way, I didn't feel I had the standing to flat out yell at misbehaving ops.
Late Edit: Since this thread has been linked recently, I thought I'd add that the situation has been resolved and the IRC channel is now relinked to the Bay 12 site.