Internet forums don't matter and you should be prepared to do something else with your time if you have to. Consider the original cth sub--eventually, it was taken down by Reddit with no recourse from any of us. Anybody like that poster who genuinely relied on it emotionally was thrown straight in the deep end, especially if they happened to be busy and not logging on during the period between which the ark discord was made and the sub was banned. They'd have just shown up for their slop one day and found that the sub was gone, and that anywhere old users from the sub gathered was being banned immediately. If they remembered specific usernames to check where people were going they'd likely enough find those accounts banned too.

So any amount of temporary downtime the sub ever did, any time that people were forced to get used to the idea of doing something else with their time without losing the place entirely, was ultimately positive imo. It helped to draw the line, that internet forums are not orgs and you need to form networks of people not irony-poisoned internet comedians. The point of the cth sub and of this site is to waste some time and laugh, and if you consider them anything more then imo you need to put effort into changing that.