Policy wrote:
Deleting/Locking posts
When forum moderators wish to delete posts or lock topics in order to help other forum mods and the original poster understand why they have done so they should always EDIT the post, or the first post, if it's an entire topic and include in quotes the reason why and their forum username.
Always make sure your reason for locking/deleting follows the Terms of Use.
I think .uzi was referring to this policy when he mentioned that someone had failed to follow it. What makes the situation ever weirder is the fact that the person who deleted your post DID follow the policy accordingly, either .uzi got confused or I'm just being dumb.