Yes, because it was getting embarrassing, and there was nothing to be gained from it being in public. This is a Naval Aviation forum, not /r/politics. We (mods and Web-san) decided people needed an outlet for arguing about that stuff, and the mods needed a dumping ground to split off other threads that had gone off the rails, but that we didn't need to have that dirty laundry hanging out in public.Did the old USA Thunderdome get moved to the private forum?