Hey everyone, just want to clear some things up real quick.
It is not and never has been (nor will be) standard practice to remove an IC thread that has proceeded to the GB phase. This would remove a lot of important information, and generally be a bad idea for obvious reasons. The only time an IC thread is removed is if the OP is attempting to bypass the Marketplace rules by starting a GB in an IC thread - something which did not happen in either of these cases, but I want to be transparent about it regardless.
I
think that what happened here is a glitch that I haven't seen in a few years. Sometimes when a mod locks a thread, the system will also unapprove it for some reason. If we don't happen to catch it at that moment, it can go unnoticed until someone says something (as was done here in this thread). So thank you for bringing it to our attention, and please continue to do so if this happens again. We'll be keeping a better eye on it now that it's been mentioned here as well.
Both the
GMK Rainy Day and
GMK Red Dragon threads have been reapproved.
Sorry about the fluke here, and thanks again for the heads up.