Spectral, did you happen to catch the M&A leak when it was posted?
Now you're going tell me that there the M&A leak proves there was actually a few on the staff who cared and made a stand and did their very best to thwart the evil powers that be, and that I've got it all wrong. Obviously, they didn't try hard enough, now did they?
Zok's will is final in this matter whether you agree with that or not. Some people might not have done what you would have done but being on the team for as long as i was i can safely say that no one's end game was the destruction of the site. The bogus bans as you would call it have nothing to do with how Zok handled the matter. The fact that he was DOX'd could have happend at some point in time anyway. Since even if we would have banned banning there would always have been people not satisfied when the website doesn't follow the exact direction they had in mind for it.
Believe what you want but in the final days before Zoklet's downfall and Zok's TTFN, there was a glimmer of hope with the staff and a great deal of enthousiasm regarding the changes that were proposed by Zok.
Even with an entire team of you, you guys still couldn't make an absentee owner think that Zoklet was worth keeping around. Lulz. Like, even though there were over a dozen of you, even though you all ran the site 24/7, even though you devoted countless hours of your life to maintaining an obscure backwater forum, it still did Zok more harm than good and he had to pull the plug.
LOL!
Only people in direct contact with Zok were Me, Mizled, panthrax and TCC. Several people including TCC and other than us did offer Zok to take over, mark even offered 2k for the whole thing, ask him if you don't believe me. But zok would have none of it.
Anyway, it was Zok's site regardless so watcha' gonna' do eh?
Oh and in response to your comment about being late to the game with enthousiasm, trust me if it were up to me alone i would have done it differently. I am sure you remember the whole PI fiasco when we tried to crackdown on PI? Well after half of the staff revolted panthrax basically said: Big changes? No way.
I would have done it differently and it was starting to look like Zok would take control but in the end he bailed.
Now say what you will. I was actually there to watch these things i just mentioned transpire, so unless you have a witness that attests to the opposite you can't make an argument against the content of my post regarding the events that transpired.