Because that would be a real shameful thing to do in lieu of not getting one's way over deletion requests.

Why, it must be yeeears since this old "dead" place got such a volume of short posts!

Are there any useful posts starting to fall away suddenly that we'd like to see higher up the board again?

I'll do one of my own, since I thought it might be useful to some or many in our larger community lately.

So, see above.