If you go to the menu at the top of the main TER page, under the More menu there will be a Your Board Posts selection. If you click on that you will see a status of all your board posts. Most will be Active. Some still in moderation will be New. If the thread has been removed you'll get a generic thread has been removed message. In the case it was your own posting that got pulled, you'll often get a specific explanation.

it has the trademark of the insurance salesman.

because the thread was removed.   When a post is removed, whether for a rules violation or at the request of the poster, all of the posts below it are collateral damage.  However, lately, I have checked back on the board and post above mine is still there, so unless someone has learned how to manipulate the program during the moderation process, I can't figure out why isolated posts are being removed "due to removal of the thread" when it appears the thread is still there. SMH

Speaking of which