The moderation over there has always been on the draconian side, but this seems a bit extreme to me. From a financial perspective, this would seem to be a bad move, because the ads in the forum threads aren't going to get any exposure. That's either costing Rob money or seriously pissing off his advertisers, or both. If it's forum postings that are the problem and the moderators want time off, it would make more sense to make the forums read-only for a few days so that people can at least read stuff and give the advertisers some eyeballs.