That thread is extremely weird. A bulk of the later pages are current and former staff taking valid concerns and exaggerating them so they can't be taken seriously, or zeroing in on some absurd concerns and framing them as the norm.
What the staff isn't or barely acknowledging is the concerns about the new owner such as their history with shady casino sites and conservative-leaning forums, the fact the new owner's mission statement regarding growth directly contradicts the staff's assurance that "nothing will change", the motivations behind the sale including the M&A's bankers suspicions about the low price, the words of some involved with the site not being the most positive (logo designer, Mod Pau stepping down precisely because of the deal, the original admins as relayed through Emily Rogers on a separate site).
Forget about the staff not getting paid, there are bigger issues at here that the staff seem to be distracting from at any opportunity they can get by being big old goofballs and pretending they have a personality. It's like there's a concerted effort to make sure as little of that appears on the most recent page as possible. Funnily enough, a good chunk of that was in the thread Seik made, which is now locked and off the 1st page.
