Well, that could be debatable, as those posts were took away some time ago.
The week that thread was deleted I didn't bother to add up the posts that were lost in that thread, which if you remember made the monsters plummet like a Geodude against Kyogre.
That's something that cannot be done because if I take out their posts in the ARTPOP thread I must take them out in ALL UPCOMING weeks, can you imagine that?
The chart is called "ATRL's
Most Addicted Members"; and even though is a weekly chart, you can't read anywhere on its title the word "week". What I'm tracking here is a relation of "Total posts and Posts per week", so it would be illogical to let those posts out of the game. That is and Addicted member, one that has a lot of total posts and is constantly posting like his life depended on it.
Besides, take it as in music industry when you buy a single it counts as a single sold, but if then you "Complete the Album" that single
doesn't count anymore.
Charts are always changing, and this one needs to reflect what's happening on ATRL; and so far it is doing it perfectly. When the server started to be a mess the posts number fell to the pits; And right now the monsters are taking over ATRL; this week it is the monster's. Gaga is all over ATRL, ARTPOP is all over ATRL, the monsters are all over ATRL. We saw it coming, to be honest.
If I didn't buy you with this then you can simple ignore this week's chart and make like it never happened and call it a "lost issue". (Like I did with Pokémon Best Wishes series, which I call a lost season that never aired).