XF 1.5 Post Counts When Moving Threads

[Pile]

I recently began working for an under maintained site and am doing some cleaning. I want to move threads from one forum that has messages counted towards user totals, to a forum that does not have them counted.
Is there a way I can do that without affecting the current message counts for users, but affect only future threads/messages posted?
I would just like to remove the one section basically by merging the threads in another section without removing user totals. (if that makes any sense)

 

[Mike]

You would need to temporarily change the target forum back to counting messages, do the moves, and then toggle the option back.

 

[Pile]

You would need to temporarily change the target forum back to counting messages, do the moves, and then toggle the option back.

Thank you so very much.