It's so funny how Kiwifarms makes the rest of the internet extremely mad when we all just stay on our forum. 4chan's /pol/ was organizing raids and shit for ages. 4chan/8chan /v/ was doing gamergate ops for years, as faggy as that shit was. What does Kiwifarms do? Have you ever seen a kiwifarms poster in the wild? Someone going, "oh yeah, I'm a kiwifarms poster" on the greater internet? No? I've seen Chan guys do it though.
I'm pretty sure at this point the anger just comes from the forum having the audacity to document and point out bad behavior, even if that bad behavior never gets acted on. It was never about punishment, it was about laughs. I was pretty frequently in the Digibro thread and never once did I think I was punishing or was going to punish Digi. In fact, most people were pretty much like "damn it's sad this went this way but it's pretty fucking funny"