I honestly was very surprised by Roger's post but I have to think that there were other items that added to his decision. Every interaction I have had with him in the past has been enjoyable. He participated quite a bit in the AU thread up until December and I have no idea what happened to make him stop posting there, but I think that may be the "in crowd" you speak of.
That being said, I actually don't remember there being that many posts in his departure thread that were actually directed at him. Before deciding that it wasn't worth continuing to post in, I asked for
@V4P3R eMAG to clarify his insinuation that Roger was part of TVM, which he deflected and
@vaperature picked up the same theme from there.
Unfortuantely it is obvious that the only goal that
@V4P3R eMAG has in posting is to stir up controversy as a means to drive traffic to his site. I did visit to read the article and simply found it to be a simplistic layman's explanation of the income reporting requirements of non-profit corporations. It didn't have anything deep or meaningful in it. It just simply stated that they are required by law to make their financials available and that when he contacted them (without stating who or how he contacted them) only one actually sent him what he requested. He didn't even say how long he waited for a response, and given the size and activity of the organizations in question it wouldn't surprise me if requests like those were a low priority to reply to, especially given that the documents generally need to be made consumable by the public, and if they were not prepared for that it takes some time to put them together.
The facts that I have come to realize is that he has no professional or educational experience in journalism. As previously stated by
@vaperature, he is unproffessional and rude for the purpose of creating activity on his site because a site's activity by itself affects search result rankings in engines like google and bing. He actually said that in a veiled fashion in one of his posts indicating that haters don't realize that he loves them and the fact that they won't understand why. Well... site traffic and mentions in forums and other sites that are crawled by search engines extend his reach and increase the visibility of his site.
His goal is to be the National Enquirer of the vaping world and if fed he will succeed, if ignored he will become irrelevant.