After discussing this thread privately with a community member, I logged back in to see if I could find the text of the post which I felt had been censored. I then noticed a link I hadn’t seen the first time to a private message, informing me that I could restore my post my editing it.
I’ve done that. Removed the gentle ribbing about “touching grass”, which was intended to add some levity to the end of the post, and take the sting about of it a bit (nobody likes being corrected on our facts, even when it’s justified). Perhaps this attempt at humour was interpreted as being mean, as is so often the case in a cross-cultural, text-only medium?
I’ll also edit any now to clarify what I meant by "counterproductive’.