Yea there was a tonne of request spam, and there were often "artists Vs pirates wars. The admin was the worst guy on the site IMO though. He spoke pure sarcasm & hostility to everyone. Eventually he started ignoring everything (bug/error reports); doing nothing but demanding money while letting the site fall apart.
Finally, after someone paid $1200 for 3 months, he cut and ran after only 1 month. $800 stolen... To paraphrase him: "I can't be bothered anymore, and It'd be too difficult to give site to someone else", but a few people had said there'd be nothing difficult about it. And did he mention the $800 scam? Nope!
RIP to a great site; good riddance to a terrible admin.