I'm finding it hard to argue with you on this one, although I do understand why your post was deleted.  Most of the time when someone necrobumps a thread that old, it's because they need to post for their sig campaign or bounty and somehow they've run out of threads in which they can write something.  In your case, your intentions seem to have been genuine....and yet there's a rule against bumping old threads....and yet those threads remain open.

Yeah, some things just don't run smoothly around here, and this is one of them. 

If this was all you wrote, it's not surprising someone reported it.  It looks like just a shitpost on its face; there's no way for the reader to know that you really had an interest in the subject.


Maybe next time, just start up a thread of your own and quote from the old thread if you need to.  That's pretty much guaranteed to not get deleted.