I'm going to hope it's the first.

I'm not sure what I've done to not make him trust me other than do routine and non-controversial changes to the DIKU pages like offer cMUD script versions next to the zMud ones and flesh out a few maps. Trust me, if I get my access back I'm going to pretty much never want to help by editing every again after this "ride the bench for a month" situation. I'll be read-only guy for a long while.

If he doesn't care. Great. I'm not sure what to do with that.