The problem is you did your own thinking, same thoughts over and over and should have been bouncing this off of some people with common sense and experience.
Censoring doesn't work in any form. You need to read about what has happened on forums and mail lists for more than 30 years now, it doesn't work.
It's been tried and doesn't work.
Censorship doesn't work.
Don't bother cause it doesn't work.
Someone responds to a post and then another and then you see it and 'move' the original, are you going to move them all? Will people just forget those areas and stick to the area where you move everything, thus making that forum uncensored like it should be in the first place? Then you can move messages over from there to a new area hoping to control that and so on.
Will people leave for other boards you can't control where they get real information, not just the corporate line? Will this build trust?
Did you think about that? Not to be insulting but you seem to have a problem with consulting other people before you go public with something you think is great, then it blows up in your face and admitting you were wrong is a hard thing (for anyone).
You are on a losing proposition, cut your losses and move on, you are wasting your time trying to control this.
Listen to the people, they might just have a point.