This site has a long history much of which was not available to the main users.
Maybe one day that story can be told.
Maybe one day that story can be told.
Aside from the current Lowtax domestic abuse / being digitally tarred and feathered business, there were the Aaatrek and Shmorky incidents, that guy who shot a couple of people over pumpkin vandalism, and so on. Literally no one would be surprised if there was more weird stuff going on behind the scenes. If you have some information (and proof) you should just post it.
I was active on SA from 2004 to 2010, and at one point I was a contractor who worked on the forum code. I was also an admin for a short period. Having been so immersed in the forums for so long, it blows my mind to think that so much internet culture originated on SA. They basically invented the now hugely popular meme format, though they were called image macros then. “tl;dr” and “pro tip” originated there. 4chan was a spin-off forum from their anime forum. I’m sure there’s more I’ve missed.
The allegations in the article against Lowtax are disturbing to say the least.
I’ll leave it up to you to guess, but I’d rather not advertise it publicly here.