Bill D, quoted Peace:
"1) Lost your tampax did ya?"
and then commented
...that just seemed to me to be a gratuitiously tasteless joke which, I gather, was deleted and then replaced. My posts then were directed to the rules, rather than debating whether it was tasteless...

Now, since the re-posting has been left alone, I take that as a management decision, even though I, personally, might have prefered to have it remain gone.

personal opinions about words are one thing, going by the rules are another...

That's it exactly. You might have preferred to have it remain gone, but it had no business being deleted. It was rude, but so what? How does this constitute a personal attack or spam? Under what criteria previously stated by Joe could the deletion be justified? It was a mistake. If it had been left alone, somebody might have commented on how disgusted they were because people do that a lot, but it wouldn't have generated an entire thread focused on bitching.