Islay:
I suspect that the disappearance of your pictures was due to a temporary problem on the hosting site which you'd used and absolutely nothing to do with the actions of the Ed (or of a moderator).
If the Ed (or a moderator) had wanted to stop people seeing the pictures, all that would have been needed would be for the relevant posts to be removed. To leave the links in place but to stop them working would take a lot of hard work from the AB's techie, so it simply wouldn't make sense to do it that way.
Further, the links are working again now, which once again suggests that the image-hosting site was experiencing problems for a while.
I find HostingPics.net to be a better site for putting photos on. You can find instructions for using it, and a link, in my post here:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/How-it-Works/Question1576852.html