I would like to voice my distaste for disappearing threads. I spent a few minutes looking for old threads I haven't had the chance to access in a long while, namely the "post your Kinesis keyboards" thread, and I'm very disappointed to hear the mods are deleting and/or hiding threads. I'm more disappointed that all the posts have been removed from searchable archives and I think hiding the information is a disservice so not only forum users and the Kinesis Corporation, but to Geekhack as well. I don't see how potentially reducing the search hits by eliminating threads about relevant topics can help anyone.
I do see complaints and I feel silly to have spent even the little time I did responding to now invisible threads. If my contributions are to expire and be deleted I will probably come here even less than I currently do, and that isn't terribly often, so in other words I'm gone.
This is said assuming that all these "hidden" threads do not pose a significant financial burden to the hosts of this website. If they do, I hope there's a way around it.