That is correct. The head moderator originally created an alternate board for other posters to get away from trolls. At the same time, it was more about him wanting to create a board to further his own personal agenda and praise rather than the benefit of ASMB posters. Other ASMB posters refuse to join his new board because he has a great disdain for certain posters and has gone as far as personally insulting a poster in front of others. After another poster publicly confronted him about his personal digs towards that poster, he quickly changed the subject.
Basically, you have to be teacher's pet to be welcomed to join the former ASMB head moderator's forum. If he feels that you are a threat to him personally, he's quick to snub you if you're lucky. Otherwise, he just might insult you or minimize the fact, that other posters have been cyber bullying and stalking you.
He loves to play favoritism, when it comes to certain posters and has a history of abusing his power as a mod by publicly singling out certain posters and publicly dropping hints to trolls about wanting to ban another poster on ASMB.
In a nutshell, ASMB was an extremely biased community all the way down political views and down to its head moderator. They claimed they wanted more new posters. Every time new posters joined, they were treated like criminals and had their identities always called into question. This was because posters were constantly being banned for flame wars and trolling.
I suffered from the same court room interrogations and much worse, as well. Many atrocities were committed against innocent posters, that weren't necessarily a part of the high school popularity contests. That's just why ASMB is shut down. It was an absolute cesspool and our head moderator condoned lots of horrible and unspeakable things done to innocent posters because certain trolls loved exploiting the race card and women. They were even posting nude selfies and porn.