QUOTE(Nerd @ Wed 15th July 2009, 5:19pm)
And yeah, he blanked his editor review and RFA and fully protected them. The only thing that achieves is DRAMA. No one even cared about either of those pages until he suddenly did that. Pointless.
I did the same thing and didn't generate a lot of DRAMA because I just can't call much attention to my words even when I try. It's possible that he got the idea to blank his RFA and editor review from me (we had a correspondence off-wiki) but he could have thought of it himself. Honestly nobody cares. As to the hypocrisy of retiring then returning, I've done it several times, and recently started yet another new account (known to some folks here), but never did I say that I was leaving for good and never coming back.
I did say that once on my blog, that I would return once Jimbo and two other users left Wikipedia, but that was in March 2008, and I recanted it a week later, if I recall correctly. Since then I've buried wiki-related blog posts in an area only I can view, and I do not care to view them.
I also did occasionally put "wikibreak" template on my userpage when I was just leaving for the 25 hour Shabbat, but at that time I was so addicted that 25 hours amounted to a significant break. A lot depends on your existing popularity. If you know people are watching you, putting up frequent wikibreak or retirement templates, and flouting them, is mildly disruptive. If you suspect people don't give a darn what you're doing, then it's no harm no foul; but you may eventually come to realize that nobody gives a darn what you're doing, so it's not worth doing.