I suppose there is a possibility his employer to him to not post a goodbye or change of duties message, we do not know.
Why they thought it was a good idea to remove a familiar name and replace him with someone else as a forum representative is confusing but he has had his duties allocated away from the forum according to
this post by freebitco.in PR and that move has caused controversy because those members interested in freebitco.in viewed him as a reference point for the website.
It's very pity that TheQuin, DT member doesn't care about forum members and didn't tell us a single word about what's going on.
I just checked some pages of his post history: he started as a normal forum user, but in the past 6 years, he almost exclusively posted about freebitcoDOTin. It looks like he went from forum member to casino employee, and that's where his loyalties shifted.
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