Some of those he chased away were people grifting off of the Robinsons’ generosity, by blog-pimping their own websites where they got paid for the clicks and eyeballs sent their way. Many of those people never contributed to FR in any meaningful way, either monetarily with donations, or with discussion. Hit and run posters if you will.
We still have several of them here. If you post a vanity (which is what blog pimpers do, at a minimum), you should donate, ESPECIALLY if you make money off of your linked material.
I totally forgot he was focused on chasing away the blog pimps. Thanks for the reminder. He was merciless on them. Sometimes I thought he was too harsh as some of their content was good.