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Because more people will whine and complain about the Cafe being gone than we will about the forumgoers thread.
even though the latter is roughly twice as large as the former (despite it not being a sticky)?
Most likely. It's only very tangentially related to the forum, if at all. Most likely it's the sinister offspring of #tcod and the spam thread (a.k.a. "what do you think of fellow forumgoers"). Which means that, unless you're part of that clique, you wouldn't find any of it relevant to you.
...doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of anonymously spamming?
Not if he doesn't identify which of the posts are his.