I can't say I've ever had a post deleted, but I'm more of a reader than a writer and I tend to ignore the trolls.
I imagine your problems, michael, were more technical breaches rather than your posts being found unpleasant in some way, as you are - or were - consistently one of the best posters here. I'm not sure if it is polite to discuss this further, but I thought that needed saying.

Generally I like to hear peoples opinions - even the disturbing ones - but if they are going to abuse the privilege and rant on and on aggressively, day after day on what they'd read in the Daily Mail that morning, then it changes the feel of the whole forum and I can understand why an admin might want to clamp down a little.
It might not be such a problem on a forum where near everyone is like minded from the start.