Bethesda likely cleared out a lot of the older threads on the forums - clearing house so to speak. With Skyrim coming, and all the other games they're publishing having forums hosted here, they needed to clean up their servers.
Depending on the forum, topics get pruned after a set number of months. You can get an idea of the time frame by simply going to the last page available and checking the date.
German has some strange capitalisation (from the perspective of native English speaker), doesn't it?
I always assume that when I see words capitalized "randomly," but there are adjectives and adverbs capitalized as well. Plus, I'd like to live in the fantasy that we have a William Shatner amongst us.