Yup.
I'd be curious to hear the reasoning behind the thread being deleted. I think it was a productive exchange, with two of the three posters who were pushing the conspiracy theory,
@Quez and
@MaxPower, being mostly respectful and open to criticism, and I'd like to think maybe even coming around to the idea that what they were doing was problematic. In other words, we were doing what most of the internet seems unable to do. I don't know if it was deleted to avoid the appearance of contributing to the spread of that garbage, or because it reflected poorly on Dodds and thus FBGs, or both.