Why is WS's LISK Thread in the "Parking Lot"?

The 48 Hours show the other night was the most-watched TV show that day:
http://tv.broadwayworld.com/article/CBSs-48-HOURS-is-Saturdays-1-Program-in-Viewers-Households-20130723

Presumably, something like that might generate traffic to a crime board. But it's difficult to even find the LISK thread in the table of contents at WebSleuths, and that's because several months back the thread was relegated to their "Parking Lot". Not up in the section with other live cases, but in a catch-all everything-else area.

Why? The stated reason was that someone had been banned from the board, started a blog, and was now cutting-and-pasting WS posts onto their blog.  Or something like that; it didn't make much sense to me. So, the reasoning went, by putting the thread in an area where the material can't be read by "guests" but which requires that a member sign into it, no one who had been banned could have access to it.

Sounds fishy to me. For a while I considered the possibility that WS admin was trying to help LE out by making the area sign-in only; if the actual LISK likes to read about himself, seeing who is reading the posts at all times could be instructive. Eventually I gave up on that idea; it's too much of a stretch to think the WS people would be that much on the ball.

I think the real reason is that posts in the Parking Lot are "private" and won't turn up in search engine results. Like they did when James Dolan, owner of Newsday and half of Long Island, was mentioned in connection with one of his offices being located a couple of blocks from one of the motels where one or more GB4 victims were last staying. Having an ex-member copy-and-paste content is mildly problematic, having Dolan threaten a lawsuit is a monster headache that WS can't endure.