P.S. Splinter sites have existed since before I even took over the forum. When I was setting up the forum in 2012, there was a potential split between this one and something set up by three people who had just been banned.
The Kiwi Farms has a 'monopoly' on Internet Drama (outside of shitholes like Guru Gossiper which are so low IQ there are threads for users who are married to inmates) because I'm one of the only people in the world who is able and willing to deal with the complaint volume and technical hardships. It's not just people like Vordrak. I get DMCAs every single day and I have to put my address on every counter-DMCA I make. I get complaints about revenge porn, emails from EU countries about racist content, complaints from Roskomnadzor, complaints from people to me, complaints from people to CF, complaints from people to my host (me, now).
You could say "We'll make our splinter better, stabler, and cheaper by avoiding those problems!" - well, good luck. You're going to be deleting a lot of content. Anything copyrighted that Kengle doesn't want to dox himself to counter (art, photos, writing, anything). Anything pornographic that a person could make a reasonable argument to a host that it's revenge porn. Anything political.
At that point, you're better off just making your site private. Well if you do that, you've crippled your site's growth. A ton of users find the site from search results. Being private means that natural growth won't come. A lot of people directed to a post will simply bounce if it's closed off. In my own investigations, I've found that most people lurk as a guest for 6 months before registering to post.
You could stay public and just moderate heavily to stay online, but then you've also crippled your site's growth. Why would people pick Site A if Site B exists, is bigger, and allows more content? They'd only pick Site A if they had a problem with Site B, and the people who have a problem with Site B are a small group - many of whom are problem users, and won't exactly make Site A a better place than Site B.
Someone brought up Something Awful, but you can look at SA and places like SS and see that SS didn't exactly thrive. It existed, it served a purpose, and then it folded into the Kiwi Farms. A lot of users here are here because they came over during SA / SS drama. SA is still up. Lowtax is gone, but the community is still there. If you want to grow a community you can't just have your community be "like X, but betterer."
My real advice to you guys is to have Kengle's name on everything to be your legal buffer, have someone else manage literally every other aspect of the community, and avoid dox. Just completely avoid dox and have a small, insulated group of people that can safely play video games on their main steam accounts. That is something which I cannot give people because the site is naturally hostile and has constant external pressure. I can only organize community games for things like OpenTTD and Space Station 13, where there are no real accounts involved.
