It's a damn shame that Lauda is no longer a staff/moderator anymore. Lauda was the most active staff member that took care of most requests pretty fast. Exactly what this forum needed. Because of Lauda this forum has seen it's quality go up from horribly bad (and prevented it from going even worse), to something a bit more appropriate.
There can be no doubt that Lauda was indeed very active and that action on the BitMixer campaign really resulted in the amount of spam coming down. But the admins of this forum must have their reasons for removing Lauda as a staff member, which (unfortunately) I think will never be made public.