As far as I know, it's impossible. It was a problem for me many times also. You can open gate's model in one of *.mdl editors and do it by Yourself anyway.
umm I know you can change doodads x and y after its placed by double clicking on it and adjusting the levels, Idk if it will work on destructibles though.
Most models, aside from doodads, are unable to be stretched or skewed; they're stuck the way they are made. I know nothing about making models, but I know that for sure. The only altering of a destructable, as I'm sure you know, is the overall scale. Like parsival said, I'd remake the model, or just make a copy of it.
I am working on getting access to the old news portal under a different URL for those that would rather use that for news before we get a different news view.
It is OK though for the main page to open up on the forum in the view it was before. As long as the portal has its own URL so it can be viewed that way I do want to try it as a regular forum view for a while
I switched it to a "Standard" article forum. This will show the thread list like normal, but the threads themselves will have the first post set up above the rest of the "comments"