From the pass dealings with dardsider (steam and blizzard), I would say he is a trustworthy and hardworking guy! Never fails to reply to my queries even in the wee hours.
Steam gift is not steam account, period! From all the readings, I still can't find any justification to delete/closed all dardsider threads!

Like darksider said, closing of a topic is easy! But the effort and hard work it took to build up the thread is not!
Please reconsider LYN admins. (And hopefully a full recovery of the closed threads!)