He also has been able to produce the specific posts that have been reported when people are asking about their ban.
I assume hilariousandco can just view all reports, which makes it easy to find the specific post.
This is true. He was also the first to actually care about the problem years before any serious push was done to address it and find instances of plagiarism in masse. He also appears to care about addressing the problem a lot. I would be seriously surprised to learn that he is in no way involved.