That would certainly put a large dent to forming trust.
Bitcoin took off in value, the forum exploded - with users and trolls (as you've posted with logs). And no doubt with scammers. ("Stone Man" could have been a forum "dust" attempt..)
Someone should remind me sometime and I'll write about when I was offered stewardship of the bitcoin.org domain and how glad I am I didn't accept it.

Did you ever write this up?