Edit: I found an earlier conversation that gave more context which I was a part of, so I tagged that on the top-- and now it no longer looks like I didn't agree with the move.

For transparency sake, since I wasn't a part of that particular discussion, at least in public-- it might look like I didn't agree with the move, but I did.

See, for example, this later discussion:

2011-06-28 18:00:33    What's moving the forums going to help by the way? Afraid you'll end up with the same clutter soon enough. Policies, policies, or something
2011-06-28 18:00:57    ius: forum mod refuses to censor illegal activity
2011-06-28 18:01:20    ius: well one goal is to get forum off of *.bitcoin.org, to make it "less official", in part due to reasons luke-jr just stated
2011-06-28 18:01:30    ius: and de-link from front page, hopefully
2011-06-28 18:01:31    Not just 'refuses to censor illegal activity' but won't even make people be subtle about it.
2011-06-28 18:02:05    Even if you don't care about illegality, it's tacky.


Someone should remind me sometime and I'll write about when I was offered stewardship of the bitcoin.org domain and how glad I am I didn't accept it.