posted 9 years ago
Is it possible that the thread is in a private forum? In that case, you would need to be logged in to be able to see that thread.
Another explanation is that the whole thread went wonky. Sometimes there will be several comments in the thread that don't meet our publishing standards. So we hide the whole thread while we clean it up. Sometimes we will take a few days until we put the thread back... The idea is to hide the thread now and we'll get around to cleaning it up later.
If you tell us the links we can give more accurate answers.
you say "tin pot dictator" like it is a bad thing!