I loved that guy.
But to be fair, Scott never said we couldn't start a thread. That's why I asked him if there was to be no thread. Of course, he gave me a not-so-straightforward answer (which you quoted in your post) to a question I didn't ask. I think we could have started a thread, and it would not have been taken down. But since he seemed to want the discussion to happen in the chat, I didn't start a game thread, and neither did anyone else. (I did notice some were talking about the game in the Shout Box, but that's just as useless to me as the Chat Room.)
I think the gameday thread must put some undo pressure on the board itself. If not, why try to change what we clearly prefer to do on gamdeay? If it is too much for the board then I can understand the request. Hey I'm not much on authority, but it's his house and we are guests. Besides a broken down board does none of us any good. I might also suggest keeping the thread and shutting down all non-essential bells and whistles if that keeps the board running smoothly (if that is possible).
But I think today illustrated that the chat room isn't the first choice for many here, and isn't a choice at all for some of us. It may be the best tool for what SDS thinks we want to do, or for what he thinks we should be doing during the game. But it clearly isn't the right tool for what many of us want to do during the game.