He's been doing that since shortly after this site launched and a flood of people from there came here, and still do I might add. There were a great many threads popping up talking about this site and as they popped up it would cause an influx of registrations here and so they responded by filtering out the links.
I will also add the DAY this site launched Mike and his forum were no longer the only game in town, he put up that Club Ideas thread in response to the people unhappy there and signing up here, with all kinds of promises. In fact in one thread that he personally posted on Dec. 13, 2007 about new forum software stated this (the new software) WILL be done. Yeah, Mike, though Im banned from there I can still read your forum.
Here it is nearly a year later, and still no new forum software.
We just need to continue on providing people with a community and place they can feel welcome and at home and that site will slowly fade away.