Human nature. We have a very hard time not abusing power we have access to. If you run the server, you will always have the temptation to use your admin power

Human nature. We have a very hard time not abusing power we have access to. If you run the server, you will always have the temptation to use your admin powers to control the social situation. (... which, as freenode is showing us, actually means you'll just destroy the social situation.)