Topic: Threads Being Deleted??

So the past few months I have been noticing that several long running threads that have been around for years are now gone. Two in particular are the Retro Halloween Game thread, which I tried to post on last month and now today the Latest Video Game Purchase thread is now missing. I am not sure if it's a glitch or is staff now removing threads that were started years ago even if they have been posted in recently?? I ask this cause even if a post gets necroed and locked it still shows up in the search but as locked.

I know there were times threads so I am not going crazy so I was wondering is this some sort of NL purge??

perhaps the people that started those threads decided to delete them?

@Tasuki I've noticed some missing too, just assumed what @Eel said. Although, I thought AntDickens maybe said that NL made a change to avoid that going forward; If someone deletes their account, and if any of their threads reach a threshold of x number of pages or x number of posts, those threads will now remain.

For what it's worth, I did this once. When I found out Twitch came to Switch, I made a thread about it missing the news headline (I usually peak here multiple times for news). Since I found the news headline here, I felt the thread wasn't needed and deleted it.

Yeah but those threads were around for years why would they decided now to delete them??

🤷‍♂️ The human mind is a weird and scary place

@Tasuki Love the new pic BTW.

@Eel Define Weird.

@Snatcher

weird
/wird/
adjective: weird; comparative adjective: weirder; superlative adjective: weirdest
suggesting something supernatural; uncanny.
"the weird crying of a seal"

@Eel Why thank you.