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I always thought that mods got a free site supporter status for the course of their tenure
You see, I was accused of doing this, to a post that was inappropriately placed in the Debate Team HQ in a topic that said "Debate Team Only." Now I find that one of mine has been deleted by upper level staff, and I rec'd no notification of it. Isn't it interesting how some are allowed to do this but others are not? 
The protocol says deletions must come with notice. But, sometimes this happens by accident. There is more than one method to delete a post, but not all the ways create an automatic PM at CF.Are staff members allowed to delete a post without letting the poster know it's been deleted?
I would ask someone on the team that moderates the forum where the thread disappeared about the post. If they can't find out why it was deleted or where it now resides, then you could escalate to the admin of that team, or to the Reconciliation team.
There has to be a team consensus that the post violates a rule or is completely off topic to the thread. The only exception would be spam or egregious trolling.
I completely agree with you Raven... we have sometimes had to "Soft delete" a post for flaming to keep the offenses and flame wars down in ministry - but a soft delete should get an auto PM - in that auto PM we state that the post can be restored once agreed upon through consensus. This guide was needed because we could close a thread with a flame war and the offending posts would be visible while reports were being worked and another thread would be created to continue the flame war and argument. However, as we have recently found out - the auto PM does not always work - so we are looking into what we can do bridge that gap... my goal is to serve the members...
If a mod happens to just notice a problem post, assuming it's not part of a mass cleanup, the proper protocol is for the mod to initiate a report. However, we do have the discretion to remove posts for review during discussion if we feel it's inflammatory enough that it could spark more problems.We're talking theory.
If a report is made against someone's post, they have the right (once the coding is done) to join in the discussion and (gingerly) speak up in defense of their post. However, if a moderator just happens to notice a problem post, the member is left in the dark until they are notified that an edit or deletion has already taken place. It seems only fair that they should at least be given a transcript of the discussion after the fact, if they desire, so that they can take their case, if they feel they have one, to the proper admiistrator or RT member.
The other option is to always make a report.
The only such case I can think of would be a thread cleanup in which discussing every single post removed is often not logical, in which case the mod hat should explain the reasoning for the cleanup. If this is the case, a poster should be able to go to the mod if they feel that their post was removed in error (which is certainly possible).
