I'm putting this in a separate post because I would like to lodge a disagreement on the following grounds, regarding the forum and it's policies:
1. Deleting information because of personal disagreements is frowned upon in internet culture, in a general sense. It is perceived as selfish and immature. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to apply the same expectations to this forum.
2. Considering the above, I disagree that it's "a small number of users" that are annoyed by this practice, even if few people are outspoken about it, many more feel that it serves the community no good to delete information that would benefit people down the road.
3. It is largely fruitless. Computer data is much, much more difficult to eradicate than to create and once something goes on the internet, it's probably archived out there somewhere, it's not going to truly disappear.
In summary, this ought to be changed and this practice should be officially discouraged like it is most everywhere on the internet. I do believe you're being much too harsh if you were to say that nobody should be able to critique the way the forum operates or suggest alternative ways of doing things. I like this group but the death of online communities usually comes when the group becomes more focused on the individuals involved instead of the topic at hand. I think a change in policy would shift the focus back to the subject of this forum and away from interpersonal drama.