I am not going to kick people when they are down but it always seemed to be that EviLore didn't much respect or appreciate that it was the users who made NeoGAF great. Not some secret ingredient in the server code.
He seemed to have viewed the members as one big disposable pile of people and not cared if long time popular users who contributed a lot got permanently banned.
In the end, few felt any loyalty back.
As others have said, he's just an unlikable wanker. His appearances at E3 a few years back just confirmed to me what a humourless non-event his personality is. The cock sucking that followed his every post put me off.
Yup. There were a few times he made a post I would agree with. Things he'd say that'd give hope he was turning GAF towards a better direction. Working Eight Thousand Hours a week to get an improved GAF out Q1ish being one example. Setting up that ad sticky to get rid of the shitty malware ads then virtually abandoning the thread being another.
The whole story he made about Bishop being behind all the terrible bannings and he wasn't aware of it until recently too.
Turns out he was even making parts of that story up. His pattern of lying or distorting facts to his benefit about things related to the forum (Ami not being a mod for "the better part of a decade") shows a terrible lack of respect for the community.
It also makes it hard to believe his version of the story with Showergate.
EV is such a narcissitic prick that even in the versions of the stories where he tailored the facts to his benefit, he still comes off as a horrible person. The version that paints him in the best light still smells like shit.
Beyond his transgressions, just seeing him in various clips like at E3 2013 makes him look unlikable as hell.
GAF was a success in spite of him, not because of him.
