Shutting down an entire thread without even a notice or warning isn't exactly gonna re-assure investors in this project who are already spooked enough. Behaviour like this is just gonna make people dump even more when the coins are released, and if it tanks as low as 1 cent there'll be a lot more sellers than buyers. Just my opinion.
I doubt many of the investors even know what Bitcointalk is. They hooked most of them via social media and bounties, it was all over Facebook and Twitter etc. My workmate and brother invested and they don't know anything about Crypto. I guess that was the point of the project in the first place, tapping into a bigger market than the small Crypto world. It remains to be seen if it will be successful or not though.
It's the worst when people just invest in the project without learning anything about him, and especially not knowing what cryptocurrency is and what risks they are just buying it)