See what I wrote in #58.
If the anti-FReeper WAckos want to continue their little charade about not having secret threads, then they need to modify the search function. It clearly showed that “sofaman” was last active ten hours ago, but when you search “sofaman’s” posts, the last one was two days ago.
"The decision was made, and we live with it, or we don't."
IMO, there was no purge.
That site was up and running 5/6 weeks before the 20k + post thread was started.
Many of them were posting under different screen names, which were changed to their FR names later.
They made a very loud, and very public exit, probably to draw attention to the site.
So...there was no purge.
They made the decision to leave.
It was a mutiny.