Is red server dead?

[cronik]

The Zek servers were a brilliant move by SoE. It shoved every problem child into one area and gave them rule sets that required minimal GM intervention. The move was so amazing that UO replicated it by opening Siege Perilous.

Suddenly all the blue and trammel shards are running smooth as silk and the asshole community is happily abusing the hell out of each other on their red servers.

I still don't get what would make someone want to run a red server tho. Like this place... It's a total cesspool full of socially stunted life-fails; who would want to take this on, and who could last more than a year or two at it?