User blog comment:ThatDevilGuy/Top Users/@comment-1610819-20110116185806/@comment-1610819-20110117042332

I think it was 'cuz I was really active at the time. Maybe part of it was that I seemed (to me, at least) n00bishly eager to help out, and he wanted to give me the chance. I don't know, still doesn't explain why he didn't promote anyone else. No one can ever hope to understand what goes on in the minds of administrators.

His message can be found here, in case you wanted to look it up.