I think Beardguy was a harmless guy whom Uschi picked on more than she should have (though that's water under the bridge now; BG chose to leave; nobody forced him out). And that makes Snarf trying to compare himself to BG all the more pathetic.
BG, unlike Snarf, never tried to make himself out to be better than the rest of us. He never tried to act like he was some deep thinker when, like Snarf, he was actually a simplistic dumbass. BG was just a guy who liked to post more stuff than some posters wanted to read.
No, if anything, Snarf is working overtime to turn himself into "whomod lite." Not so much because of the politics (thought there's some of that). But because Snarf, like whomod, alternates between thinking he's the genius of the board and some sort of victim of the rest of us.
Whomod called the cops on rex. Snarf started screaming that his constitutional rights were being violated because BSAMS called him a dumbass. Either way, it's a guy taking things WAAAAY too seriously.
Beardy was far from completely innocent. Sure he painted himself with that brush but he was just as human as everybody else. BG was a his way was always the better way type of guy,even if he had no clue what he was talking about half the time.