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You're forgetting about CJayC's infamous airplane engine statement. He allowed the scenario that you described because he knew that the LUEsers would contaminate the rest of the board. This was back when he had had previous troubles with certain userbases (the original Scumwars and the Random Insanity Gamequeen refugee crisis (a massive exodus from Random Insanity to LUE) being the prime examples. As you can guess, the latter played a significant role in LUE becoming a major problem board.
We're talking about RIers of the day-- the folks who had an absolute field day abusing the moderation system that night the delete button broke and people could mark their own posts. A few of them used to raid LUE in the middle of the night with silly topics back when it was still exclusively about 100% serious discussion, only for said topics to get cleaned up by the mods before dawn.

LUE invaded a lot of places. Including Sprint Relay Online to make prank phonecalls. Other invasions included:
--Some poll-generating site where they made 2 or 3 different polls. I have them recorded on a word doc somewhere.
--A site with a Sonic the Hedgehog movie dreamcasting
--A Pro-anorexia board. The users there accused the LUE invaders of all being "jealous 150lb fat chicks"
--To Be Smarter Child, a very impressionable Smarter Child beta. This was my favorite
--The site admin made an announcement warning people of password stealers posing as the admin or a moderator in emails and chatrooms. LUE decided to go look for said password stealers in order to mess with them. The result was absolutely hilarious, and my 2nd favorite invasion. They only managed to find a single password stealer (who they drove completely insane) and the rest of the shenanigans involved LUEsers bullshitting one another by each pretending to be a password stealer. The absolute best line from the latter is "what kind of idiot gets mustard in a server that's 25 miles away?"
--One of the more disgusting ones was a message board for tweens, where among other things, a LUEser created an account named "BoyTouch"

Those are just the ones I can remember. Obviously the poll site is a completely harmless example.

I forgot to mention that in addition to account suicides and board/offsite invasions, LUE also had a big problem with truth-or-dare topics (which is what ultimately led to Black LUEsday) Those topics would always lead to dares to break the ToU.

Edit: Forgot one more thing. There were quite a few changes to the ToU made in response to problems on LUE. This includes autoflagging "STFU and "GTFO" (became fad responses, and were considered trolling), a ban on fad topics (at one point something like 4/5ths of the topics on LUE were fad topics, and it was bleeding into other boards as well.), rules against board invasion, LUEicide becoming a banned word, and a ban on LUEshiis (with the penalty ever-increasing until at one point it was an insta-warnable offense. This is an example of an LUE problem that did not remain confined to LUE, and it even affected a lot of gaming boards.)