It's all water under the bridge, as far as I am concerned. :]
No, I agree that it wasn't really necessary to delete the threads that were made, especially without discussing it first, but that was carried out by one of the members of the staff while I was at work, and I spoke with him about that afterward. It's understandable though that he felt the need to protect the new message board and wanted to take care of things in my absence. We just needed to come to a joint decision together.