I read a bunch of Amiga Powers as a kid, after years of reading Amiga Action (I was young, shut up). They were excellent, far funnier, cleverer and more honest, and it's not exaggeration to saythat it influenced my sense of humour and style of writing rather a lot. Yeeears later, I stumbled upon The Weekly, and Mil's House of Apology, and AP2, and naturally ended up at WoS as Stu was one of the best writers on AP, and WoS was full of excellent people. Although I must admit at the time that Cam Winstanley was my favourite, which can be at least partially attributed to my youthful love of violence. Jon Davies was amusing, also. And J Nash, obv.
I spent many happy hours reading through some of Stu's work that I'd missed in the late 90s and early 2000s, and then hopped onto the forum. Stu was, and still is, a very skilled, persuasive and amusing writer, and despite his stubbornness and aggression online, I find it easy to believe he's a very kindly, thoughtful chap in person. A lot of the vitriol directed at him seems ridiculously hyperbolic, and typically follows the same pattern - "I loved stu and laughing with stu about the embittered people he'd banned, until one day we had an argument and he banned me, and now he's shit and always was shit, ooogh." This saddens and frankly embarasses me, but there you go. He's stubborn and argumentative, which is a major reason most of us liked him. It's also why most people who fall out with him fall out with him. Personally, I find it best to just take his excesses with a pinch of salt rather than get in a twist about them.
There will never be place on the internet as close to my heart as old WoS. Unless J Nash resurfaces and takes over google, obv.