Well, I've watched it all from the cheap seats. There's no doubt, however much Doog flows through your veins, that this was the outcome desired by a few posters who were always offended the Refuge existed.
Yeah, DJ was a bit of a dumb shit, but the boards are crawling with them. On balance I think there were a few more Duck psychopaths (46, OBK, NWFresh), but then again, we? had Ballz and Ballzdeep and the other Ballz derivatives. In the end, I always said and still believe that @haie was the original, he was good at it, he was witty and he was committed. HW could also be entertaining if you're not a Duck. I've had my disagreements with Bob over this and that, but agree he was just doing some goose/gander work here. Mike, NT, flatus and several others are good guys with whom one can have reasonable discussions. There's no reason you can't share bandwidth with them.
It was all working fine until it was all happening at the same time. A little @haie in your life works. A sprinkle of @HuskyJW is good. Bring in @WoolleyDoog with his Duck hate but rationale takes, and you're still humming along. But when you have all that, plus Bob being Duck-haie, and all the extra retard from the retard gallery happening at once, it stops working. And that's what happened.
Too bad.
PS: no way was Stalin was inspired because of UW's season. There are people here who would make decisions based on that criteria, but not him. If he were that guy, the Refuge would not have existed in the first place.