lucid(the admin of the site) changes the owner, which in every single case someone messaged/e-mailed him asking him to change it to someone else for them
Hmm, I don't think I had a serious mod other than SuperChimpy back in the day. I tried Nightofthelivingcats and Delicate when I was having trouble keeping Cirno9 out, but they ended up banning each other or something. It was a mess.
I wouldn't want epicmafia drama coming between us so I didn't have Luap as a mod, same reason I never had Platypops, Kenny, or Reamix as a mod.
There was a long while when custom lobby mods just didn't have any power at all to ban or delete anything. That's probably when the shenanigans you're all recalling took place.