I realised I made an incorrect decision trying to force people NOT to talk about particular subjects - a message board should be about free discussion.  So I reinstated all the old threads into one board here: http://www.ndnbloggers.com/ndnbloggers/b-oldrants/

HOWEVER... these are only available to registered members just like the Weekly Council Highlights.  Obviously you are free to talk about whatever you want still... but the theory is that if people are made to register to post in the old threads, they might instead prefer to post something positive as a guest in the other CDA boards.

The constant negativity on the CDA boards was driving people away from the other parts of the blog.

Good compromise, even though I would like to see the old threads gone.  All that anger built up for what?  Did it really make a difference?