Do you think that an achieved forum with no posting privledages would be a good idea to created? Then vBorg could host these abandon hacks, only moving abandon hack threads or giving the author the permission to move it to that forum if he/she wishes. Like the old 3.0 beta forums. As the author you were able to move the thread to the full release forum when it was out of beta stage.
At least this way the information is still visiable to users who still wish to read the content it has. Just an idea.