People in general hate someone that do their job, the way they supposed to and that's the case here.
This.
It's mind boggling how people turn against Lauda just because he's doing his job at managing a signature campaign the the way it should be managed, strict and fair.
Lauda's Bitmixer takeover was a needed action as hundreds of participants were just spamming nonsense throughout the forum to get their payment at the end of every round.
Spamming in general was such an issue, that mods were even discussing the option of wiping out paid signatures entirely. It just shows how critical the situation was.
I am not sure what the stance of moderators is regarding that right now, but it seems SMAS did a damn good job at preventing that from happening.
If you look back and see what effect SMAS has on this forum, then I can only applaud Lauda and the other connected managers for their work.
Of course there is still spamming going on, but significantly less than in the times before SMAS. That's why there are people being added to the blacklist from time to time.