Well, his policy actually seems to be helping him out. I'll give him that. The forum after 2 days of being open remains a mostly content free zone compared to previous activity. I'm sure it'll take a bit for people to notice and traffic may still ramp up, but ongoing discussion will probably remain nil in comparison to historical levels.
One thing I do wish is that the forum updated current signatures onto older threads. I put a link to the SACTalk foum in my new signature and it would be nice if it populated across all the historical postings.