Ebay was locked because people would put links to their auctions here on RCU and it was too much of a pain to moderate it.

As far as the evader, rustler and xxx-nt threads I will look into that. I do know the RS4 thread was blown away and we are working on restoring that one. If you have a link anywhere to the ones you mentioned above even if it doesn't work that would help me track them down. Or if you know the exact thread titles. I don't know what happened. It is either a software glitch, a moderator moved or deleted them by mistake or there was/is a rogue moderator who intentionally blew the big threads away. The only one I knew about so far was the RS4 but if there are more I need to know about it.