@bedknobs - When i typed this ""It worries me that my inability to find a post means I am suffering early-onset dementia"
It was meant half- jokingly, and I was not suggesting that it was a deliberate tactic by the editor or the moderators to make me doubt my sanity- sheesh.
@jno - Again, not sure i am explaining myself sufficiently. Where a whole thread has been deleted (not just a response within a thread, where we already get "answer removed") - We as readers and posters have no notification of that fact - only our recollection. What I am asking for in these cicumstances is for the title of the thread to be left - along with a brief message saying thread deleted, so i am not chasing through responses and pages trying to find a half-remembered thread. Were the title left, it would also serve to act as a prompt to plea for the reinstation of the thread,minus the offending individual posts, assuming of course that the whole thread was removed because of some of the individual responses, rather than the tone or content of the OP itself........