He was an extreme case and certainly a good example of what will happen to the nails who stick up the hardest, and to specific individuals.

KF is a site that is far more neutral, meaning the full tactics there aren't available. So they are simply soft killing it instead with these basically unknowable to the common folk methods. And as its that much harder to explain and explain why its bad to most people, it'll likely be the method they use going forward rather than the full scorched earth of his.