I've had many posts deleted. Once I reposted a deleted post and the moderator changed the text.
You have an activity slightly above 100, it will not be a tedious job to find that particular post of yours that a moderator outrightly changed the text or context. I challenge you to do so and earn merit for it.
Looks like the mods are being nice, merging the post when they could've just deleted it since it broke the forum rules.
Moderators are lenient on newbies most times because it is perceived they aren't conversant with the rules yet. It will be a bad moderation to delete an objective and on point post of a newbie instead of merging them.