More than one moderator can remove a post. We don't know what post you are referring to. If a post is removed it is best to bring it to our attention at the time, not some weeks after.

However we are loathe to provide free promotion with links to competitor sites, commercial software sites and software ******** sites etc.

Some of these sites also don't care what publicity they get as long as people visit them. "Any publicity is good publicity."