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 just a.kid with too much time on their hand probably, they do it exactly because it's easy to do and causes a lot of annoyance, was the same with IRC in the 90's 
 Phase 1: cause netsplit.
Phase 2: join empty channel with ops on split server.
Phase 3: wait for netsplit to resolve, deop all other ops and take over channel.

Until networks build advanced channel registrations.

Feeling all nostalgic now.