I saw it all go down so I will respond...

There was a post that contained a direct personal attack on a member of the forum. Parts of that post got quoted. AmbientShade obviously decided to delete all of the material that was attacking. This included any post that quoted any of the offending material.

I'm sure unless you heard from him via sitemail there was nothing wrong in what you said... just the fact that he needed to get embedded materials out of the stream.

I can't speak for Shade, but he did what I would have done had it been me back in the saddle. Which, thank god, I am not.