I'm pretty sure it was the reason. If it wasn't the reason, it's still something he did do and something the forum admin has told people not to do. He was advertising his pay-only profiles in another thread then he opened a new thread (this one) and posted a profile which does nothing but auto attack as an opportunity to advertise his pay-only profile. I'm betting a lot of people overwritten their old free profiles with this one too.
Luckily I did a backup of the old profiles, so I still have them and they work fine.