Don't want to argue with the mods' decision, only curious as something must have happened that I managed to miss out on entirely. It was a thread where someone was asking where he could get Adidas and Nike shoes in wholesale quantities. I added one of the three or four replies to it, all of them straight forward, the whole thread seemingly entirely innocent, and now the next day all of it's gone. Just curious, but what did I miss?

You missed the work "copies" in his post. Copies are not legal and not up for discussion.