Karyn,
In defense of Cowboy Dan, it can get creepy around here in these last days.
Have had my threads deleted a couple times in the last week, last one in defense of Reaper just a bit earlier today.
I am probably the most opinionated, irritating, verbose bastard on any of these forums. Always able to piss someone off after my third beer, and likely just short of the forums banning me on many occasions.
When my threads go "missing" and looking at the nature of the thread, natural reaction from my subjectivity is that they went "conveniently missing". Knee jerk thought is that someone is trying to silence any dissent or vibes that don't follow the party lines.
Could be just technical flukes, but when lightning strikes in the same place multiple times, you can't blame the recipient for wondering what is going on behind the scenes to preserve political correctness.
You are otherwise correct. Ask before assaulting the moderators, which I probably would have done (meaning would have assaulted before asking... Got an excuse... I live in Oregon...)
John