Alec Conroy wrote:
In general, a desysopping is often interpreted as "You screwed up badly, repeatedly. We're very mad at you, and we're taking your tools away".
But maybe there's room for "Good work. You got a lot done. We appreciate it. It's probably best for the project if you let the rest of us take it from here".
It's hard to interpret it that way, though. Asking someone not to do X or Y in the future is one thing, but invoking technical measures to literally prevent them from doing X or Y in the future is hard to interpret as anything but "we distrust you so thoroughly that we feel we need to take protective measures through the software against you".
-Mark