I’m… not sure how I feel about that. I mean, I’m for selective censorship, otherwise blatant misinformation and spam/crap/junk lower the signal to noise ratio, but deleting old topics to “make room” for new ones (in the age of cheap terabyte storage, on a text forum, not Netflix) is highly questionable IMO.
Is that what happened to these two topics?
Deleting doesn’t communicate anything about the deletion reason. Adding a pointer to the current information (ideally in the OP, since this is done by admins) does, and prevents broken links.