No one is entitled to a service. It's a workable solution implemented transparently with instructions for opt out. I'm only not surprised by the malcontent bc I've witnessed a thread about an orange peel hit like twenty pages.
Alright look, folks, we're gonna talk some real shit here:
I've been doing dumb internet bullshit a long time. Most of you have too. We've seen communities like this rise and fall, and sites like this are a dying breed.
We are lucky enough to have an admin so stabwound-fucking-insane that he's willing to devote himself to dumb internet bullshit at nearly unlimited cost to himself, while still managing to not turn this into his personal army. That's a rarer breed than you'd think.
As he said, he's gotta live. We will not find another admin with both the technical competency and the psychological disturbance needed to run this shitshow. Much love to Null, but anyone else would've just bowed and scraped to Sam months ago, assuming they didn't just hit "fuck this" and leave.
So let's say we fuck this up. As Null said, we get a new admin and it either turns into a bunch of PA shit or that limey fuck gets what he wants to leave us alone and we are cucked by literally the most pathetic human being to ever live. Either way, the site will suffer. But hey, no big right? You can jump ship, go elsewhere for your internet shithead content. Let's examine your options:
You can go to EDF, where you can listen to fucking LikeICare jerk himself off in every fucking post. You thought he was a smarmy, self-righteous cunt when he was here? Try being somewhere he has power.
You can go to SA, where you will swiftly learn why the goons fucked off from SA.
You can go to 4chan, where you will swiftly learn the meaning of the phrase "eternal summer", and get to be on a site that, last I heard, is run by an international criminal accused of shady data shit.
You could also go to 8chan. 8chan's fun, right? Except you think Kiwi runs like shit mining bitcoin. The only thing on 8chan more crippled than Hotwheels is the servers. Enjoy being taken down constantly, threads that take months to see any content, a load speed usually associated with dial-up internet, and a userbase so far up its own ass it qualifies as a contortionist act.
Suck it up, fork over some of your precious processing power, and keep this thing going.
Swear to god, I've never seen such whining over nothing.