What I don't understand is why canton handed over such a sensitive and popular website to new owners who reputation was still unknown?
Why didn't he just put down the whole project if he could not proceed, supporting it? I mean, that's a honeypot for scammers. It was a just a matter of spending a few thousands of dollars to buy it and then later scam the hell out of some many users who used the site
If i were to make a guess, previous owner offered big amount of money and he accept it. Popular browser extension such as AdBlock plus had similar fate.