Inks Ladder works because not one person is in charge. Ink is the organizer but changes in rules/ people being booted is voted on by members of the Ladder. There is no nepotism. Ink also garners a mutual respect from everyone, at least I believe. So when a certain squad who was in charge of the SDL starts to blame the community maybe they should look in the mirror because they ran SDL. SDLs success or failure is on them not the community.
you think any other squad would have voted to support KN's continued presence with the way perdweeb went off on everyone? I did agree that HO-ing on the merge was un-sporting and some squads did start using it as a valid tactic. It was the nature of the beast unfortunately.
And your wrong about running "SDL", the squads organised matches amongst themselves and any rule changes had a forum to discuss them. I only had to act when things got out of hand. We had around 80 matches with only 3 having any sort of issue afterwards. If squads refuse to jump back in or carry on fighting because it is deemed to be so serious then that is their choice, we had some great fights with muppets, Jokers, LD's etc.
IMO the failure was more to do with a lack of squadron organisation or willpower. They just couldn't guarantee enough numbers.