I've seen the cookies this site uses. It's practically nothing. They wouldn't be able to get anything useful out of that. That's just Toiletboy being Toiletboy.
Disco from disco's homeland.
Jim seems like a good guy, yes.
Hotwheels is probably worse than you think. Jim had to delete a bunch of questionable boards related to children after taking the site from Hotwheels.
They had to up the complexity of captcha a few times because he was exploiting the captcha request system with OCR to bog down the board.