As far as I'm aware that mass post removal only happened once and there's been no threat of a repeat, but I might have simply missed something... However, it is still far from an ideal system - in the big fandoms new forums get lost; in the small ones fewer people will come. Either way, it can be hard to get traffic outside of an already popular forum there.

I'm sorry I can't be of any help. :/ I hope you find somewhere soon!!