I've recently had two image deletes I greatly disagree with. One had a c-index of 86, the other somewhere between 78 and 80. Both had fairly high views, downloads and votes. I don't get why they were deleted. I know one of them had several comments. I imagine the other did as well, but I hadn't viewed it recently enough before it was deleted to by positive.

I thought photographs were accepted as permanent caedes material based on comments, votes, and c-index. Why is it two images with high rating were rejected but my first image to ever get past the "new images" category only had a rating of 76 ("Woods and Stream"). It know has an 80, but not at the time. It also had viewer comments than my image with an 86. On top of all that I never really even thought it was all that great.

Why are my good images being deleted?