After checking out SS, not to deny
@Jaimas' account, but here's how the SASS members see things.
According to SS, Lowtax never gave a damn about the SJWs "pozzing up the place", as they call it. So long as they gave him money, he was content to fuck around in an ambien and boxed wine coma. He also never gave a shit about the pedophiles until he had no choice but to deal with it.
His mods and admins are basically a self defeating horde of losers who essentially run the place like feudal lords with their own semi-autonomous fiefdoms, and so long as Lowtax gets money, he lets them do what they want.
The mod purges were a result of outside pressure, no internal effort was ever made that had any impact until outside parties like SS goaded them into it.
Examples:
Loosechanj: A creepy asshole who treated female goons like pieces of meat (rating their hotness in a screencap known as Looschanj.txt), and it wasn't until Lowtax got hassled about the creeper did he finally demod the guy, he otherwise went unpunished for years.
Aatrek: A simple Google search of his real name would have revealed his past. The "Mods Knew' meme from that incident was based on the assumption they had to have done so at least once during the five years he was a mod, otherwise that means SA is run by total dumbasses who don't do background checks.
Call Me Abey: A complete douche (one time buddies with Aatrek) who basically was an unfunny prick and SJW white knight. Finally got demodded when he made comments about the penis of a teenager on Twitter (who called a bunch of SJW feminists on their shit) and he got a lot of on and offsite shit for it no one could ignore, him included.
There are more examples, check their doxxes, but the common denominator is that SA did fuck all about these idiots until they had no choice, according to SS.
SASS obviously has axes to grind, so take the above with a grain of salt, but from where I'm sitting, it does have more than a few grains of truth.