Concentration camps thread unaccessable?

I was skimming through the article on US Concentration camps here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

And when I clicked on the link at the bottom 'Discuss topic on discussion board' or whatever it says, it links to a thread that is in the trashbin and cannot be accessed... Why is this?

[edit on 10-7-2004 by AgentSmith]

Looks like a good topic to discuss too. Wonder why it is blocked?????

Wow, that's kind of weird. I don't think that it is any big deal really, I'm sure the mods have a good reason for closing the thread... Mods.... ...?

I don't think there is a conspiracy or anything, I expect someone adbused the thread or something.... Unless it was ordered to be shut down in which case I would have thought the whole article would go to...

Hopefully when some Mods come across this thread we'll get an answer anyhow!!

Perhaps it would be a good idea to start a new thread on it again, but it's probably best to hear back from admin why the first one was shut down before we rush ahead and do it.

all I got was a page with banner adds and a "Sorry, you are not permitted to view this forum"

There were probably other threads on the same topic.

Originally posted by Pisky
There were probably other threads on the same topic.

It just seems a little odd, because why would the link from the information page on the main website link to a redundant thread? Why not link to an active one?
It's probably just something that's been overlooked I imagine.

Looks like an honest mistake.

When SO was working on the programming to feed main-site content from the discussion board, he used a few test threads in the trash. It looks like this was never moved out of the trash when he finished.

Moved it out.

EDIT: NM didn't read above post :p

[edit on 7-10-2004 by Esoterica]