Excuse me, Cormac - but that was exactly the situation we faced. There was a very real threat that Hobbes would destroy Lazarus's forum - which was why Lazarus approached me looking for technical help in scraping the forum. I approached Eluvatar and Glen-Rhodes, the two people I know who had the technical experience to scrape.

Glen is right that at any point that it got out that Lazarus was trying to back-up their own forums, it was possible Hobbes could blow - we didn't know. Nobody was taking any chances. This was a similar situation as what TSP faced with Hileville, only much worse.