I completely agree with the removal of those two.
My missing ones apparently are not a result of a clean up on your part so I will carry on..So much for assuming..
Probably a result of a copy rather than save / upload.
I understand 100% why you'd get upset, and would have been in your shoes too. To be clear about things here:
- Outside of normal moderation, we
have lost small amounts of content over the years during software changes, scattered around various sections.
Imports from one software system to another aren't perfect. I'd estimate less than 0.1% (if that much) doesn't make it through importing to new software. The biggest problem with that is it's usually months or years before we caught a missing item. Due to their size, maintaining backups for years is not practical so if it's too long, it's gone forever.
- The worst issue we've had, and unfortunately many forums had this happen:
Photobucket, used by huge numbers of forum users, blogs, eBay accounts, Amazon sellers, and more, did massive damage to the Internet community in 2017. Without warning, they changed from free to a $399/year subscription, more than most people could justify spending.
Free accounts no longer served images to outside sites. I wrote code that tried to circumvent this, so Xenforo could make a copy of Photobucket images to store here. It only worked about 50% of the time, depending on which type of Photobucket links the images were using.
If you used Photobucket, or pasted any image links that were to pictures that were hosted here, there's a chance the image is gone. It looks like most of the time you uploaded images (which is good) instead of linking them. If you run across what looks like an empty post, post with a broken image placeholder, etc. it might be due to this.
- There is a small chance we deleted a few missing posts without notice. I think it was a year or two ago when we discovered the warning notification system here had a major bug. If we assigned a warning expiration and point, the warning notification never got sent. We didn't know about this bug until I told someone they had been warned, and several people replied they never received a warning. I tried a test warning to a test account, and found the same problem.