No, deletion is the accurate description. Some links that are still available on Google search ( eg: try this query "https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+unit+test++civil+3d" and look for the posts that are> 10 year old) are no longer accessible; when you click on them you will be directed to the main forum page.
I think they were insinuating, with no basis, that Autodesk is for some reason keeping the removed posts in their own offline/intranet backup. They could've also been thrown off by the PR speak the Autodesk employee who announced this used, in which they called it "archiving" but also said "we cannot keep the content" (https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/community-announcements/commu...).
Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't still there somewhere.
If you are looking for something and it isn't where you last found it, you usually wouldn't assume it's "gone".
Yeah, maybe for you it's as good as deleted. But I suspect Autodesk retained 100% of this data for subsequent machine learning application. And I think for you to say it's deleted, how are you going to prove there are no copies?
>> And I think for you to say it's deleted, how are you going to prove there are no copies?
This is really an astonishing question ( claim?). If going by your definition then no one is capable of proving that any Internet contents have been deleted. "Deletion" becomes a meaningless word.
