OK, it *does* have something to do with Qwest: http://goalseattle.blogspot.com/2007/09/qwest-field-under-attack-on-bigsoccer.html
As a regular poster in a thread on another website, screening off the emptiness is not an attractive solution. You should either embrace and welcome the options that the emptiness brings, or just wait until the moderators shut down the old thread and force you to continue the discussion a new, smaller thread that's harder to get to, looks like all the other threads being made, and is too expensive for some people to post in. And yes, I'm incredibly bitter.