yeah, sadly, someone noticed they had percolated up to become moderator of this channel, and put a password on it... either because they were fooling around, or out of malice (i suspect malice; we have had bozos on our realm doing this to consensual world channels, to jerk people around).
i guess with world channels, the password is removed at any point the last person leaves the channel (at worst at realm restart). of course, there is nothing stopping some person (same or different) from doing the same thing again.
problem with this sort of implementation (AceComm, xtenstiontooltip, etc) is that it constitutes conscientious anarchy. the problem with conscientious anarchy is that in order to function it requires people to be conscientious. too many people are anything but (i use the term "petty sociopath" in this context... people who are happy to jerk others around, but don't have the hair to do it in real life, they are afraid of getting punched on the nose... and then a guildmate said something funny, and apropos: "no, sociopaths have better things to do, we are dealing with idiots and *ssholes").
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