These guys are heroes.
My read is:
a) They're doing a job that needs to be done.
b) They're relatively flush with cash from donors
c) They're not nearly as efficient as they could be.
d) The people there seemed more concerned about competition than collaboration.
e) Probably most controversial: The organization seems like it has stagnated.
Different groups/orgs.
The Archive Team is a community of archivists who do their own thing, but frequently contribute their collections back to Archive.org. There's a lot of cross-pollination between the two.
No response. So, I went on to my largest pet peeve: The insanely bad response times for the IA wayback machine.
I got temporarily kicked from the channel for that.
After that I didn't really have the motivation to go back there.
(And yeah their page load times are still ridiculous, like 15 years after the launch, for the archive.)
Getting kicked out of the IRC channel for pissing him off for basically anything is frequent. I used to hang out on IRC and saw it happen a lot. Eventually happened to me as well (couple years ago). I didn't go back; it's not worth putting up with him. Didn't stop me from contributing to the archive / AT / archival communities; in fact, shortly after I got kicked out, I was invited by someone else to a jason-scott-free community I contributed to for a while.
Now he's employed by the IA, so not volunteering, right?
The main ArchiveTeam channel on Efnet is basically for "the house is on fire" emergencies. Normally you'll be asked to bounce to the chat/discussion channel. That may be inconsistently applied.
I worked with ArchiveTeam in the G+ shutdown process and have only fantastic things to say about them. Highly competent, considerate, and GTD/GSD.
I was a G+ user, and helped coordinate the exodus and information ("plexodus").