My experience was pretty similar, except that I made a few friends in MSPA-lit much to Makin's barely disguised seething. I ended up joining back a couple of years later, only to be banned from that channel almost immediately. He offered to unban me under the condition that I read at least five of his webnovel recs (yes, seriously) and he was only that generous because a few people in the channel liked me. Makin, your Reddit fiction is garbage and I wouldn't read Worm if you put a gun to my head.

He's just the definition of a self-righteous moderator. HSD is basically his personal dictatorship, where he's constantly drumming up drama and bestowing wisdom on the unwashed plebeians. He supposedly hates the HICU/Whatpumpkin/Beyond Canon/etc. shadow cabal, but he really just seems jealous that his own shadow cabal LARP doesn't have even more influence than it does.