Sorry for the dumb question, but I keep reading about Baggins stuff being deleted, but then I read the other day, can't remember which thread it was, that apparently it hadn't, it was just inaccessible or something.  So what is the situation there, has his stuff been deleted or not?

Seriously, I really don't know, so it would be great if someone would clue me in on that.  But I will say this, if all that stuff he posted over the years has been deleted, it is absolutely inexcusable, and you can't blame the guy for having something to say about it.  I get pissed off if just one of my posts goes amiss, so can you even imagine what it must be like to lose the endless amount of stuff that he's given over the years.  I've seen people post a question and he's rewarded them with not one, but a whole stream of posts of free tutoring, and he does it all the time, and he's done so for how many years?

Do the math, that's a lot of work and I'm amazed the guy has kept his cool if it really has been deleted!

One other thing I would like to say is that really, I don't get how things like this can happen, I mean DAZ did the same thing, they released a half-baked forum, they made it live while it was in such a state I thought it must be below Alpha!  Why is it so hard to test these things on a seperate server before letting it go live, why do companies do this?  I just don't get it, cause all it does is piss-off customers and community members, and make the company look incredibly incompetent, it's just ridiculous!

It's the sort of thing to be expected from a noob who just set up their first forum, but not from a company like DAZ or Renderosity.