Hah, good ol' PJK.
PJK tried to rule with an iron fist.
At around that time, Kurt made me mod. I kept telling PJK to calm down, 'cuz he went and deleted entire threads, banned people with no warning (there was no warning system - there was no rules thread! No one knew the rules as they were just 'guidelines' picked up from the internet), and would ban you if you even questioned him.
So he pretty much was countered by the more colorful board members at every corner. New accounts would be created, as well as duplicate accounts, and proxy servers were set up just to get around him, from what I recall. I've heard rumors about how one person would use someone else's account to throw the IP filter off, then would complain about how they were banned without reason (whey they pretty much just shared accounts just to troll).
Now that there's a rules system in place, everyone has to abide by those rules.