If your art thread is missing, then chances are you broke the rules. When I come across a thread full of needless double-posting, I have absoloutely no intention of spending a huge amount of time editing, copying, pasting, deleting, and generally just cleaning up. If you use this forum you must follow the rules, otherwise you can expect things like losing all the 'hard work' and feedback from your art thread.

I also strongly suggest that you read forum news posts so you can keep up with new rules and happenings around the forum. There's nothing worse than Adminning a forum where the members won't listen.