if those posts weren't deleted, you wouldn't have gotten it anyway, WITH a few deleted posts, you got it.
I KNOW I GOT IT. RightSide posted 998, and everyone waited for a while until someone posted. As soon as Plugin posted (I refreshed index, not the thread, I posted. Don't keep a brotha down, Sarge.
no deletes farther than a day. You didn't get it fairly. When you got it, someone had already started deleting prior posts, which may have coincided with the immediate get, but it wasn't a fair one. If there were no deleted posts at all, Pluginfiend would've gotten it, you wouldve been one post shy. Going back further than a day, when the 1k post was in the distance is irrelevant, because nobody was fussing over it seriously (i.e. deleting posts to make it happen) until today.
I tried something different ;/ Maybe you should try a guideline instead of just saying "lol k do it".
Dammit. I was the first to GET to 1k tho. The pic, it's timestamp, should verify for the future then.