I had seen random quotes of the WO thread in various news places, and even fairly recently, within the past several months.  I doubt that my spending time to further research into the matter and citing various locations in which it was quoted would make any kind of difference because it seems that owner and moderators already have their minds made up that they do not really value the WO thread in its current state - they consider the thread to be more of a burden on them than a benefit - despite ongoing, active and longterm participation by both substantive and non-substantive posters.

I think that the sentiment of marcus_of_augustus various posts describes the importance of the WO thread - but none of his comments seem to be sinking in and the fact that there was a mixture of both good and bad content does not take away from the fact that the thread could be a bellweather measure of bitcoin sentiment.

Also the fact that causing the moving of the thread will likely lose some of the participants who have that particular thread bookmarked, and they won't be able to find (or bother to find) the new thread location.