Gentlemen; At various times I have dropped a total of almost 2500 posts give or take a few - for all kinds of reasons. Lineback has lost well over 1500 if my memory serves me correctly and Butler Bill has lost about 4000. Sadly, sometimes threads just seem to disappear. At other times models or sources are banned. But more often or not it is because one of the mods has started cleaning a thread to make it easier to navigate and to save space. There is no way of sending a PM every time a post gets dropped during every one of these proceedures. I already spend half of my natural life sending PM's to rule-breakers. It is correct to say that attaching pics or viable links to your post is the surest way to make sure that it survives - and attaching the pics rather than hosting them off-site makes it even more likely that your posts will survive.
We try to allow productive chat between members. But anyone would have to admit that two years later it has almost always lost its usefulness. When that happens it gets dumped. The thread that I am currently working on has gone from about 107 down to 93 for that very reason and will drop even further because I am only about half way through the thread. But in the end it will be better for all because what is left will be the real "meat" of the subject!
So get used to it - occasionally you are going to lose a post or more.
"Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - H.L. MENCKEN
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