Right or wrong never mattered to the trolls, old or new, and even now, I'm sure much of this thread is just pretending. If Null had come out and said the opposite, siding with the extortionists for some reason, the forum would have gone, "Yeah Null, get'em! Get Chris!"
The "if you close down the subforum, someone else will just set up shop!" argument is proof of this. Essentially, it's a "lesser of two evils" fallacy. It's a way for everyone to take the moral high ground without actually changing their behavior. But they would discard it immediately if they thought they could. That "containment" bullshit is nonsense from people with fake troll's remorse. People don't like to be honest with themselves and admit "I like laughing at exceptional individuals and there's no real moral justification for this hobby." But it's true of me and everyone here, even the best of us like
@Cosmos or
@Marvin.
That said, there's no real comparison between the jackasses extorting CWC and most of the original crew (barring Bluespike, etc.) or the members of KF, and it's cool people are stepping in to protect Chris. He's an innocent victim here. I hope he gets a happy life one day.
But none of us are good people. Myself included. Any good person, wouldn't be on KF.