If you re-visit the forum rules you'll see that we reserve the right to remove any post for any reason, although those simple rules guide moderator decision and action. Both threads in question were deleted after they degraded into personal attacks and flamebait, and showed no signs of returning to the thread topic.

Long-time users of the forum know that we'll provide the platform along with an extraordinarily wide latitude to express unpopular opinions. However, when the debate turns personal we'll pull the plug on a thread every time.

The best advice for a new user is to attack the argument, not the person. APC is definitely not the venue for UAL-MEC style threads.