Hmmm, one of those rare moments when Doc Hudson and I almost agree.
As one of the posters involved, the rules were acknowledged and respected. The posts were answering specific questions and purposefully minimal and to the point. Actually, they weren't pointed, again to honour the rules.
That brief series of posts was followed by a post from a thread admin thanking us for following and respecting the rules.

I hadn't revisited the thread and was unaware that it had been deleted until I saw this post and then Dread's signature.

I guess on one level, I'd like to have got a pm or something that would have informed me of this. It's hard to avoid these kinds of mistakes if it's not clear where the error was. (thread admin post said it had been okay.)

If it had got silly afterwards, I guess I'd like to know that too. I can understand that happening. Or even if it's linked to the recent hate mail and things are jittery, that would be sort of understandable.

Your house, your rules: fair enough, I can live with that. I knew I couldn't use the upstairs fridge, thought the downstairs one was okay. Guess you better tell me again which fridge I can use. That sort of thing.