Hello there,
I posted a thread: Looking for Guidance on Adapting to French Life as New Immigrant - #10 by RicePudding
Now I find that my post is hidden. This is very disappointing for me. Please look at my post and make it live again.
Done 
By way of explanation (I see that James has restored your post): Discourse (the forum software) has a way for users to “flag” suspect posts. It also has a “membership level” feature so when members who have been around long enough flag a newcomer’s post the system automatically hides it until review.
James is one of the site owners, the other is Cat and I try to help out with moderation - if you want something looked at you can reach out to any of us.
I’m sorry that your post was flagged but SF members can be a bit suspicious of newcomers posting links which look like they could be commercial - it’s against T&C and we aim to be a helpful friendly place to get information which is from ordinary people who have been in France long enough to have learned to navigate the many quirks of life in France - or others who, like me, are not permanent residents but have a link to the country (in my case a second home).
That aspect of the site is important to us and we tend to defend it - maybe a bit too agressively at times but on the whole you will find real people here with a genuine love of, and connection to, France - not just commerçants who want your business.
I hope that you find the site a useful resource.
I am slightly curious about one thing though - and that’s that the IP address you used to register appears to geolocate to India.
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I was curious why your post included a link to a training site:
Assuming this was unintentional on your part, I guess you have no issues with it being removed?
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Ah, I missed that, removed.
Dear @anon83400048 - remember what I said about defending the integrity of the site as much as possible?
Your post contained a manipulation of two links designed to hide a link to a commercial training site. There isn’t any way this happens by accident and we take being misled quite dimly, I’m afraid.
You might like to defend yourself, on the other hand you might link to keep quiet in which case I will delete your account in the morning (CEST).
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Goneski. Always a bit sad about that.
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