Check this.
Founder: Reserved for Satoshi, gets 5 platinum coins under his name.
Sorry to say but I guess these are the ugliest coins on the forum, I mean from no way these looks like platinum coin. It looks more like "disabled" coins. Even though I know these are platinum coins but every time when I see Satoshi's user and these 5 coins my mind says yes these are "disabled" or "in-active" coins because Satoshi's account is inactive.
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In the second picture, the red marked areas indicate dates with big gap between the 3rd and 4th post in that thread. That is between sirius and PrintCoins posts. They are 1 year and 9 months gap between them. Does anyone also know why? Does it mean no other person posted between them until then or there were posts in between them but they got deleted? Was the forum not that active then?
regarding OP's second very interesting questions, I guess posts were not deleted because all posts exists but on different topics, here I found how to confirm this
sirius post # 200 on February 02, 2010
Then from post#201 - 211, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000 - 5000, 10,000, (20000 x), 30,000,40,0000, 50,000, 60,0000 i checked all are posts exist
You can from this using merit link, just change the post id
Post # 201 =
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;msg=200Post # 211 =
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;msg=211Post # 10000 =
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;msg=10000 .....
Post # 60000 =
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;msg=60000 Until PrintCoins post # 665348 in the welcome thread after sirius post # 200
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;msg=665348From this I can conclude, no posts were deleted (yeah may be few here and there but no big dump deletion by theymos) and almost all posts exist but on different topics.
You can get the exact post and topic link if you know how to? Don't ask me
For example
Post #201
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.201Post # 999
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.999Post # 30000
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.30000Post # 60000
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I asked two major questions. Only one has been answered and I acknowledged it. Am waiting for the second question to be answered and when it is done I will lock the thread. Thank you.
I think I answered but still don't lock the thread, maybe someone
e.g. "LoyceV" will give you more info.