This... isn't how forums work, at least not any run well. Text-based data is tiny. I've seen threads on several forums in excess of 4000+ pages and 80k+ replies, and no one has ever suggested shutting them down. While they may be distracting to the rest of the forum, space is only a concern if you are pinching for every single megabyte, at which point you should probably considering purchasing more space.
So I'm going to go ahead and say space isn't an issue, and the issue is this is the wrong section, as you say. That's not really our problem, the mods are the ones who put it here instead of somewhere else. As such, it seems to me they're killing something that has become a community in it's own right just because.
I'll miss this thread, even if I mostly just read the bromance between you and Ouraibaa.