Hello,
TL; DR: My thread is gone. Why?
Yesterday I made a thread in in the bug section asking about why sometimes when I used the reply-to function, the "this post is a reply-to..." disclaimed doesn't always appear (it doesn't appear if you are replying to the post directly above yours). It was a duplicate post - which I clarified. The reason I posted a duplicate was because the "original" was closed with a link pointing to a yet older thread. The link was broken (or I didn't have permission to view it), and so held no answers for me.
Shortly afterwards, I received an answer I was satisfied with. Today, someone posted their opinion on this matter on a different website where I had enquired about this issue, so I wanted to give them a link to the answer I had received here - except, the thread that I made here is gone.
Why is it gone? The only thing I can think about is that it was perhaps deleted?
Indeed, I found this. Assuming this is what happened to my thread; why would a thread with useful information in it be deleted? Judging from responses to my thread on this other forum, many people had noticed this weird "feature" and wondered why the "reply-to" didn't appear.
Why couldn't just the thread be locked, since it was resolved? Then others with a similar question could have found their answer simply by searching the forum, and I could have linked to it to back my explanation up, instead of now having to say something like "I found out on the Discourse forum about bla, but I can't give you a link since the thread was deleted as it was considered an 'accident'".
Also, my thread wasn't the only one that had disappeared. The thread I had duplicated is gone too. Now there is literally no post talking about the quirk in the "reply-to" feature, unless I fail at searching. Sure, it's not a huge deal, but I'm sure someone else will eventually ask about it, since it is weird.