My Post has disappeared!!!!

I posted a reply to a question about the $30 discount on iLife 08 to .Mac customers. It appears that those outside US are not included in this "offer".
Why has my post been removed? There is no trace or explanation. Who moderates this board and does this sort of censorship?

Thanks to Michael M, Michael W and a Brody, for your various responses.
For the avoidance of doubt, I was not the thread owner nor the only responder. I was however in agreement with the general thrust of the points being made. The offending post may have occurred after my post, for all I know.
In addition I would like to make the following points:
1. It seems unfair to me that having paid for full .Mac membership for a further year to find I was excluded from the full facilities offered to the membership.
2. The Forums TOU have been changed on May 2007 a date after I joined the forums, so I did not necessarily agree the current TOU.
3. To delete the thread without trace or explanation seems very blunt implement.
4. I have now made my comments directly to the feedback. Without any acknowledgement.
Regards
Beano

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However, you have posted to the right location if you felt a thread required reporting.
Austin,
I don't think your thread needs reporting so much as someone to clarify that what has happened is not a hack, but rather a misunderstanding of how network updates can fail. It is possible they have a bad router, or a bad routing software that doesn't work with their system, or both have decided to turn on a routing setting that blocks software update, or they have an internet service provider that has blocked the right port.
It would seem one poster jumped to conclusions, and the other is just not able to post as frequently as the other would desire.

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Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. Note that in iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show your past purchases with links to stream or download them.
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I've noticed more of these missing library posts of late and a common factor to most since I started asking is AVG Anti-Virus. It seems in some cases it might be at least part of the reason why the library file disappears. Try excluding the iTunes folder from any AV scanning process.
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Uninstalling AVG won't repair the damage, though hopefully it should stop it happening again. See this post for repair steps.
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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
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Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
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Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Please take this step regardless of the results of Step 1.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
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