Don't know what your experience of message boards generally is but you're being given considerably more of a say than most message boards I've come across.
I remember the mods changing Drummerworld. Just a simple post 'it's closing down as at... and moving to ...'. Done. No one complained. No one even commented on format. Sometimes when you give people a say you just open a whole bag of shite, as has happened here.
Personally. I'd have just shut this down and moved it across. That's how I reckon 99% of other boards would have gone about this.
You should be grateful it's even being debated, and approach it from that perspective. It ain't a Democracy. Guys give up their time freely to run it/moderate it. It's their call.