There are likely a few areas to offer criticism.
Personally I find that having posts deleted for no reason makes it hard to trust in the integrity of the whole site.
It is either puppet strings being pulled, or something else… but it is an unattractive thing to have a “forum”, that then becomes a “forum -10%” overnight.
The two people mentioned seemed to have the power to get that done often, either themselves, or with help.
audiogon = post-gone = thread-gone… more often than not.