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Please feel free to discuss the deletion here. This thread was a troll designed to open up another discussion on this topic. Not allowed under current rules. But you may discuss it here for another 3 years or so.
Mudelf

I am grateful for the permission given by this anonymous 'moderator' for our forum to discuss this deletion here - but whether our forum will be free to discuss anything at all in the next three years is looking rather unlikely at this rate.

As for the current rules not allowing another discussion on this subject - perhaps these current rules can be displayed?

Whatever our 'moderator judges these current rules will allow - it is clear that the threads that were 'silently deleted' were not trying (heaven forbid) to open up another discussion on this topic - they were designed to try to make a point about birthday threads...................

As they were not as claimed by our anonymous 'moderator' and did not meet the required criteria for 'silent deletion' - perhaps they can be restored to enable our forum to be allowed to judge the fate of these threads?