Unfortuantely in this instance, the forum community that Lazarus had previously linked to it's in-game component was shut down. That effectively killed the culture. Yes, they can and hopefully will, build another community forum, but as we have seen, that has as yet been unsucessful (not counting the weird pseudo community run by cormac et al). The longer it takes to re-establish a singular identity, the more difficult it will become. And Lazarus will become the same as TP, even sharing it's forum.
The fact that the owner of the previous forum is the one that shut it down, is the only thing that keeps it from being a COPS violation. But it certainly was a violation of the spirit of COPS.
Fearless reacted to Darkesia in On Lazarus: The discomfort factor