As mentioned: JB wanted to take his ball and go home.
He demanded mike delete "his" posts and was granted.
*if* you'd have followed all his drama as others have, you'd know that rather than make statements like the above.
It's not clear to me why a departing member should be able to successfully demand anything regarding his prior posts. But whether I have followed the drama regarding Roadie is irrelevant to the point I am trying to make about the effect on future use of threads when posts (by anyone, not just JB) are deleted. There has to be a way to avoid that negative effect. I just replied to a post from sfleinen, who is knowledgeable about this stuff. Perhaps he will have a useful response.