@Skate Zilla
I understand that what's going on is initiated by Turn 10, not you.
But this is a pretty dumb move, if you ask me. In the last couple of days, more and more external sites have linked to this thread, thus drawing attention to the specific and current problems. Now, how would it look to you, if you find out the thread has been deleted?
That there would have been a better place for those messages would have justified moving them. That has not happend. Instead usefull information has been deleted. The reason you gave might be a good reason, but it's not the only reason, and therefor unlikely (for me) to be the true reason.
Deleting messages might be justified in many cases, but especially in this case, it looks more like trying to sweep things under the carpet. Should it look like that, Turn 10?