And? It just tells me that he didn't even bother to communicate about it (elsewhere) until someone straight up asked about it. I still think that communications about the forum should happen on the forum.
So if I ask a question of CN on Twitter, Benson isn't allowed reply to me on Twitter, he must come to the forum instead?
His reply was in context. I posted a comment about the thread, he saw the Tweet, the thread got deleted, he replied that it was deleted, and why.
I'm pretty sure that you could get a response out of him too if you tried, either on social media or by emailing him. Have you tried contacting him or do you think that all you have to do is send up the bat signal from the forum and he'll come running?
As for a reply on the forum, you got one confirming the threads were deleted. But, evidently, that was not enough for you and here were are today, still banging on about it.