Ok, so I have more to sort through after I sleep that proves the point, but to me it's pretty obvious who is was behind this:
AKcoinminer/JoeMattie/sixthtry/DMF/MCsnugs/??? was always the first one to bring these sites to people attention while usually pretending to stumble across them nonchalantly:
He has a seemingly endless supply of usernames that are also closely tied to them:

And he shared the same ip with DMF, etc.
Under the AKcoinminer name he was known to lose lots of money and gamble a ton of money on those sites....which would end up back in his pocket anyways if he lost, so win-win for him and the site's appearance.
For some reason he also deleted the bitcoin group he was a member of off of his LinkedIn shortly after he was accused here.
I might have more, but the amount of tabs open in my browser since this happened is ridiculous there are files everywhere that I need to sort. I believe there is another incriminating chat log somewhere but I couldn't find the one I was looking for tonight.