Your story puts me in mind od the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
As you know, the parable originated in ancient India, from where it made the rounds in many different cultures. However the meaning of the popular proverb differs in other countries. A group of blind men, who have never come across an elephant before and who feel a different part of the elephant's body, and then describe the elephant based on their limited experience. Of course, their descriptions are different from each other. The moral being that humans tend to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective experience as they ignore other people's limited, subjective experiences.
I know some limited things about WP. You know some stuff about Discus and Createaforum, whereas I would never even have the gumption to stand up such a thing.
Likewise I don't know about people hijacking graphics. I tend to rely on Occam's razor in such matters, and figure it's me that is
**** up. Which is not to gainsay your experience; I don't know what is happening, but efforts like this, and even DD, are too small to attract t much notice on the part of the surveillance state.
But on. the other hand, there is the experience of K-Dog to consider, as described on the Diner.
Anyhow, I am glad to come on over here and pitch some stuff up from tome to time. Nice place ya got here, AG!!