>>82007
Don't take the wrong lesson from that though.
The lesson isn't "Hotwheels is corrupt like Moot".
The lesson is "this was inevitable".
Authoritarian measures naturally increase in the fight for a sites survival.
Each new board promising freedom can only have a golden age before becoming to despotism. Not because there is a surplus of despots, but because there is a surplus of vagabonds who will use freedom to destroy. Any leader, no matter how principled initially, must choose between acting against these elements or simply allowing their site (or nation) to be destroyed.
This isn't an apology for Hotwheels, but he really had no chance against forces of history.
More freedom means more ways to destroy, necessitating counter measures leading to less freedom. The best of men, who are pursuing no devious plan to enrich themselves, have to face up to this, and realize that their principles of freedom fully extended cannot protect themselves.
Decay is inevitable. Each new alternative is able to offer freedom precisely because it is small, but as it grows in notoriety if not size, it is besieged by the same forces that made the original state the barracks regime it was.
Now we understand M00t, now we understand.
There is no hope. No savior. Only endless power struggles from now until the end of time. Many will rise. Many will fall. You cannot stop this train.