In light of Matthew's blatant dishonesty ....
Just to add onto the dishonest & intentionally misleading areas with Matthew's actions in the community recently:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1125880
Agreeing with the thread title, having a "staff hero member" loudly (spammily) defending scams and making unbacked bets himself is a black eye on the community
His removal from staff would be not much different from the recent decision to decrease scam exposure (changing from stickies to the longterm subform)
He could continue to do as he pleases, but without the implied support of the fourm itself, as I am sure some members of the community put larger trust into "Staff"