The Forum was pulled because it was being used as a tool to bash the company with (not just on this topic either). Nothing was discussed particularly positively or objectively and it was a really negative site to host on their own intranet.
Arthur Scargill,
The
main reason the forum was pulled was because some crew were being
bullied and
harassed to an extreme level. The night a particular incident happened, I witnessed it first hand and reported it. It was also as you have mentioned above but not primarily.
Mods, apologies for the above as it's not that relevant.