The developers and game masters don't even read the forum enough to be considered avoiding something, at least as far as I can tell. I know now that the developers have the same attitude commercial video game producers do about giving out information. If they were a said designers, they would be the ones that think of the game as "not released" and thus anything they tell anyone is a "sneak-peek", "spoiler", or at worst "security leak". It's an attitude severely detrimental to the game, as it makes the difference between an active community and one like this, but there isn't anything the players can do to change it. I don't think I've every seen it change before, actually...
I would like to get the topic back to logical speculation, but I can't think of anything to add at the moment.