1. There is no sign of corruption in the database therefore the likelyhood of this being a bug or accidental occurance is minimal.
2. The posts in question appear to have been deleted under normal circumstances. By that I mean they were deleted by someone with the authority to do so. I know this because the posts are normally assigned sequence numbers. The number pattern should be sequential. What I see in the database is that the numbers were assigned (to the original posts) and then reassigned to new posts after the originals were deleted. The only people that can delete other's posts are members of the staff.
3. The profile changes to OtherHD could be a bug. We had another occurance of this several months ago.
Having said that, I would like to state publically that I have the utmost confidence in the entire staff. They provide a tremendous service for us all in keeping this a nice place! The policy of the board is to allow free debate as long as it stays professional and avoids name calling and other generally anti-social behavior. Those of you who have been members here for long understand that we don't practise opinion censorship! Anyone who thinks we do is welcome to contact me directly. The staff policy when deleting posts is to copy the post into the "Staff only" forum and then send the member a post explaining why the post was removed. I'm sure there are several f you who can attest that this does happen on occasion

There are two plausible explanations to what happened tonight.
1. It was done intentionally in the heat of the moment. I hope that this isn;t the case but we all have to remember that the staff are human as well. We are discussing this possibility in a "Staff only" forum. So far no one has admitted to it and I trust each staff member to be honest! That's why they have the privileges they do!
2. The posts were deleted accidentally - The staff memebr have some buttons available on every posts that allow them to edit/delete/ and perform some other functions. It is possible that thiswas done accidentally.
Bottom line is we don't know what really happened.

