I was thinking a similar thing about archives being a slippery slope. Whew, it's almost a relief that you haven't brought something up that makes me seem like a dope. If theymos can access deleted posts, then I would imagine that most staff would have this capability. Would there be any reason you can think of that would make theymos not enable this for the staff? It would seem the only benefits of that would be for the people abusing the system by deleting posts or whatever.

Every forum I've ever been on has a graveyard, so I would imagine this is just something that only staff has access to.