Our generous members posting free designs, remove the original download.
Sometimes the designs are posted for a limited time or they decide to add different ones.
When these are noticed, the topic is removed along with the posts
If you have thanked the digitizer, being a polite member

then your post count would drop .
This is how I explained it to another member and would add that moderators checked all the free embroidery design pages recently to keep it up todate and remove all posts that no longer had downloads attached.