There's several posts missing from that thread, actually. The whole attack on the G&M writer has been deleted, as well as the responses it generated.
Just a suggestion for the future, instead of deleting posts altogether could we have them moved into a scrap bin of sorts, where they can still be seen, but not responded to?
Well perhaps that GM attack and ensuing discussion warranted deletion but perhaps there should be some kind of mechanism for transparency so that we would know what has been deleted, such as the idea that Burgher suggests?