The thread was pulled because short AP articles must be excerpted to 50% of content.
Yeah, I've posted over a thousand articles and can only think of two that were pulled or modified. One I fought the mods over the definition of a blog (I lost). The other was a story about Olympic officials ordering another 10,000 condoms because they ran out. It got sideways really quick. I still think the mods were wrong on both of them.