In this thread, an “advertising link” was removed from post #2. This was done by completely removing the offending link in question, thus making the post make little sense since there were words missing. I had to read that post several times (“The search function at works well”) before I realized that it had been edited and the missing words must have named some other message board.
I suppose I can see why you wouldn’t want to leave the original words intact, but would you consider putting something like [Link deleted] in when you decide to alter our posts like that? That way, the poster’s sentence at least makes a little bit of sense to people who come upon the thread later.