Hi, welcome to the forum!
I believe there is a process to have your affiliation with the project verified, but that shouldn’t have resulted in your reply disappearing (and it sounds like you’re familiar with this fact already).
My assumption would be that you either:
- Violated the guidelines somehow (though from your description that sounds unlikely, and I’d think they’d reach out to you and/or ban you depending on the severity)
- Triggered some form of auto moderator, as once happened to me, though this also seems a bit unlikely since in my experience, that just leads the post needing approval, which happens regardless for new users.
- Are in the clear and just need to wait for them to get around to looking at your post. I think this is probably the case. As for why you can’t find your post anymore… maybe it’s just poor UI design on Discourse? I don’t have posts that need approval very often, so I don’t remember what it was like.
If we want to assume that your post has been looked at and was silently rejected (possible!), we could speculate as to why. Now, without having looked into your project or that thread much at all, if I were to speculate based on this post itself, my best guess would be that your post appeared to be generated by an LLM. I don’t think this post looks like it was generated by an LLM, but by process of elimination, that seems like the most likely reason. Most of the other guidelines are about being civil, which I think you are being now and have no reason to think you weren’t in the post you describe. But I will reiterate that this is based on the assumption that your post was rejected as being in violation of the guidelines, which I already do not think is the case based on the information you have provided (and of course, appearing to be LLM-generated is different than actually being LLM-generated; even if this were the case, it may just be a mistake founded on some manner of unusual formatting in your post).
It could also be some mysterious other thing I’m not thinking of, of course. Unfortunately, I think the best course of action is to keep waiting for now.