'The Man' isn't trying to keep anyone down on this site, the PC police aren't running amuck, nobody's freedom of expression is being impinged upon.
Bottom line: 23,000+ reported members of these forums, a downward trend in build off participants, a 144 total voters in BO16 Class 1… less in Class 2. As participating members burn out, age out, or move on ... where do the replacements come from? As you may have noticed, the average age on these forums is on the higher side. This is a dying hobby. One of the reasons for Steve to have such a rule concerning profanity, nudity, etc...is to remove any possible barriers to youngins, aka replacements, visiting this site.
Both mods were posting on this thread and were obviously aware of the pics...and said nothing. The drama was self created and the deletion self-imposed. No evil mod involvement. Stew on that for a bit.