So.....you come on here, requoting your original post, and complaining about how nobody has the guts to respond to it? And when I do, and explain the reasoning behind any aggression, so its to your face, and not "behind your back", I get it in the neck?
Of course you're going to get some flack, you're the enforcer of what is clearly an unpopular rule. And one I wasn't even aware of. As far as I knew, I thought the rule was still "Your character is available after 2 weeks", with Byrd merely being stricter in enforcing that. I thought the removal of people after 2 weeks to "make it an official" was an addition you'd brought in yourself to make the roster tidier. And from what I've heard elsewhere, I'm not the only one under this conception.
If more people knew this was an RPG policy rather than just you being anal, I'm sure they'd take their grievance to OOC instead of taking it out on you. I, for one, would be quick to disagree with "you're removed after 2 weeks" as an official policy instead of "you're character is up for grabs after 2 weeks". The purpose of the 2 week rule is to allow a character not being played to be picked up by someone else, so that character is not wasted. It is not - or at least I think it's not - supposed to be a punishment for the absentee player.