May I ask what happened to "Message from Iran"?

[MsAmerica]

In the Politics forum, there was a surprising post entitled "Message from Iran." It has disappeared.
I feel badly because it looked to be a woman reaching out from Iran, where their internet options have been several restricted. I not only hoped it might be interesting - I also hoped that it might be a little ray of light for her.
Can I ask what happened to it? Was there a fight? Did someone think it was a scam?

Yoo-hoo, Mods! Any chance of a reply?

I feel badly if this was a well-meaning woman finding the site and hoping to communicate to the outside world.

I saw that, I think the deletion message was ‘deleted for breaking talk guidelines’ or something. Things get deleted at the drop of a hat here while really offensive posts remain ‘as they don’t break guidelines’. There was a jokey one deleted last week in the middle of the night for no reason. I read all the posts so there was nothing offensive there. But, deleted.

“But carry on reporting things to us”.

And the fabulous one where you report adverts containing half naked very young women, ‘we’re going to maintain the party line which is we have not seen them or some other barefaced lies can you screenshot that for us?’ and when people say ‘what information does a screenshot actually give you without the URL’ you suddenly find they’re doing a sponsored silence typing ban and can not or will not answer.

I really hope that woman does not come back, because if she does and sees her post deleted she’s going to feel so shit and even a supposedly supportive web forum (mostly for women) does not care.

Hi @MsAmerica. Sorry for the delay in replying. We've had a look back at this and it looks as though we had some concerns that it might not have been genuine so the thread was removed.

I momentarily wondered the same thing, but on top of concluding it was real, I thought: What's the harm of giving her the benefit of the doubt?

Seemed to me - unless she later said something inflammatory that I missed - that the potential good of possibly giving her a lifeline to the world (and to give us insight into her situation!) outweighed the downside of our giving some nice replies to someone who might later turn out to be fake. I saw she'd replied to me and wondered what she'd said.

Thanks for taking the time to check into it.

:(