Based on the goodbye letter, it has happened enough that the admin worked with authories, and it was getting toxic enough frequently enough that the owner was feeling psychological damage from moderating it.
I'm not going to say if the boons are worth the burden, but in Leif's case it was now. And he was calling the shots at the end of the day.
> Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. One aspect of this has been a constant barrage of attacks on communication services, Omegle included, based on the behavior of a malicious subset of users.
To me this sounds like the problem isn't the malicious users, so much as people using the malicious users as an argument to shut down Omegle.
You can moderate people showing their dicks, you can't moderate people suing you because you didn't do enough to stop little 16 year old Timmy seeing a dick.
I'm not going to say if the boons are worth the burden, but in Leif's case it was now. And he was calling the shots at the end of the day.