Fuck that.
Just do a news post or forum post where people that are upset about their stuff being prepatched can go to list what they like removed from cdr. Make a point to let them all know explicitly that nothing from here ends up over there without permission in the first place, or going forward.
Lastly just let them all know it'll take a bit of time to get sorted out since you weren't expecting to randomly become basically the only general hacking site out of left field. 99.99% of people would end up cooling down and likely respect your openness in like two weeks tops.
And at that point, the other .01% that want to just start drama regardless of what you do can go straight back to the RHDN boards that they just slowly burnt to the ground for the past eight years. They won't be hard to spot; they all sound like the rich couple from Gilligan's Island with the way they word their posts.
Either way digging the site (well, outside of the imitation reddit upvote/downvote thing, seems borderline pointless on a romhacking site but that's just my personal opinion). Wish you the best man.