Potential reasons for m7 taking a long break include:

• The fallout from bringing on a tranny as admin.

• Said fallout exacerbated by being unreachable during the Texas ice storm.

• His mom having surgery in the early spring.

• u/d3rr actually doing a fantastic job in his absence.

Banning all those legitimate users at TAM's instigation had to have caused him some reflection on where his 'antiextremes/saidit' dream went wrong.

Running a site like this is a thankless job, as many of us say, and when you add family issues and personal disenchantment, the temptation to just walk away could be pretty attractive.

and overnight he became very suspicious of me as he felt the site had been infiltrated long ago and certain old users could be whatever he thought they were.

I got that too. There were some pointed comments that seemed pointed at me, even as one of the first users back when it was antiextremes.com.