Vintage was actually a good guy. He just got bored with the whole scenario and pushed it over the cliff. And some of them, liberal or not, were actually valid posters making valid posts. But, like a lot of social media/message boards/forums/bulletin boards, people get carried away.
I would have classified Thunder as part of Dirty 30, yet he survived The Night of the Long Knives. He didn't appear to spawn alts at terminal velocity, nor did he go overboard with personal attacks. Ditto for TK. Definitely in that sphere, but couldn't bear the thought of being banned, thus holding back just as much as was necessary.
Frankly, most of them were fine. They just pushed to the hilt with the meme/hijack stuff.