Hmmm it occurs to me Lowtax would even have to purge in one go. All he r eally has to do is systematically implement guidelines, enforce them and slowly replace the mods with more functional individuals as they inevitably loose their shit.
The again it's pretty clear the rot is at the top.Lowtax won't put the time to maintain the forums standards so any mod gets to treat the forum as their private fiefdom, it could just have easily been inept right wing mods with slight shifts in politics. On reflection the whole thing shows the primary flaw of the mod administration system. Once the site owner is a weak or lazy or whatever then bad mods will slowly seep in.