The Technical essay archive is just that, an archive of information that was once free. Had it NOT been archived, it would ultimately have been pruned and lost forever, benfitting nobody.

The archive is a benefit and incentive for gold members and always has been. If we have no incentive we have no gold members, no gold members = no site and, interestingly, no more problems.

I fail to see what your problem is, i can understand your point about wanting to access your own posts and i have offered to move your own posts back into technical help where they belong, and i am happy to do that for any member unhappy with his/her topic being in the archive.