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Yes, they shut down the thread...
A bunch of people "jumped on board" eventually, so it wasn't just me pissing and moaning the whole time! The "WB Thread" in the pickups section and the "Roman Rist" thread in the Luthier's Corner both have some carried over "drama." I don't know what is going to happen exactly, but I have heard that the "issue" is going to be resolved in some equitable manner. We'll see.
But, for now, Mr. Rist and Mr. Boggs have a couple of jumbled up messes for threads - taking a whole lot of excellent information and product reviews and jumbling them together in to one chronologically ordered mess of a thread (randoms posts from random threads mixed together based on date and time).