Why are threads sometimes arbitrarily deleted?

[Uncle Wally 2]

There was a thread here in 'Off Topic' this morning about immigration attorneys. It was a few pages long, and I typed out a couple paragraphs as a contribution. When I submitted my post, an error message told me the thread was gone. Not about to accept that having written at reasonable length, I started a new thread to submit my post. One response, then *poof* it disappeared.

Sometimes, threads are moved to a location on the forum more pertinent to their subject matter- fair enough. And when people start making racist or otherwise objectionable comments, threads are locked. But why would a thread about an innocuous topic be outright removed, especially if it had a good discussion going? The only thing I can think of is Mr. Power Drunk Internet Cop moderator had some kind of personal objection to it and deleted it.

Explanation, please?

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

those threads were probably merged.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=173431&hl=

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

It was merged. See the other (locked) thread in this forum for more details. Before blaming the mods please PM me next time out of fairness to the mod team.