Well, it seems this "deleting thing" has raised hell.
I'm a newbie (here in the forum) and I must say it's quite difficult to find my way through. If I'd like to post a thread I didn't know at all where to put it.
Therefore I guess it's not the worst idea to re-place some(!) of the threads where they belong. They might have been posted by newbies like me who didn't know where to put them. Some of the "elders" here might want to place their threads with purpose in the "wrong" section. Well, they can still express their purpose and I don't think the threads will be re-moved.
Deleting threads is something else. I agree totaly that it's a VERY short step from "cleaning up" to cencorship. Anyway I trust the people in here not to cencor anything. Otherwise they wouldn't be here at all, would they? And cleaning out old threads noone ever read or that are out of time isn't anything to worry about. Sometimes one has to throw away old, unused, (worthless?) items just to get more oxygen. Don't tell me you ever throw away anything.
As often there is the need of "cleaning" out flames. And that's a good thing to do. There are always some people around who think it's very funny to offend others regardless of the theme. Neither of us wants those nerks, do we?
So I'd say let the moderators do their work and concentrate on your own.
(Finally I apologise for my English. it's not my mother-tongue and I might have used the wrong expressions sometimes.)