The question is who is at fault? The guy who bumped the thread 1st sirminesalot? All of them? Guys who kept bumping?
I probably wouldn't blame the members who posted after the thread got bumped, because they might not have noticed what the date was in the OP. I've done that quite a few times by accident, and it's a mistake anyone can make--so IMO the blame falls squarely on the person who actually bumped the thread.
But then you should be sure who bumped the thread, as in this case the person who bumped it ,removed the post and now everyone will think the 2nd person is actually the first person who bumped it. (which is actually not true).
The post disappeared, modlog doesn't show anything for the user or topic so it was deleted by the user, I can guess why.....but ...
sirminesalot was the initial bumper from what I seen last night. After his initial post in came the load of posters following him. The problem is I would still say all the users who quoted the OP of the thread and replied are to blame. These users did not take the time to read any replies. They just quoted the OP and made a post then moved on. The ones who replied to those users, maybe not so much.
Quoting the OP and not bothering to read other replies in the thread prior to themselves replying would qualify as a junk or spammy post.