Forum staff deleted a new account and its queued GPL compliance report, no rule cited; asking for the reason

On 2026-09-01 I registered on forum.f-droid.org and posted one topic: a sourced report that Plus Messenger, a Telegram for Android fork with 50M+ installs, has published no corresponding source since 2017 while its current release ships a proprietary ad and billing layer. The topic went into the new-user moderation queue. It never came out. At 03:47 UTC on 2026-09-02 the forum emailed me that the account "has been deleted by a staff member". No reason, no rule, no reply on the topic.

Two minutes later, at 03:49 UTC, @vdbhb59 (forum title: "Contributor, F-Droid Board Member") wrote on the Telegram-FOSS tracker, under my comment there: "please delete this comment from the bot above. The bot has come and posted on several forums. Just created account and posted this. Banned them. Reporting this as well." https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/377#issuecomment-5504070601

So the sequence is: a report about a GPL violation is queued, the account is deleted by staff, and a board member then asks a second project to delete the same report, calling it a bot. Nobody on either site quoted a line of it as wrong.

The report itself is public and every claim in it links to something you can check: the GitLab commit API for the developer's repository (three commits, none after 2019), apksigner output with the certificate hashes of the current APK, and the message IDs in the developer's own support groups where source requests have been deflected since 2016. The same app was submitted to this forum in 2015 as "GNU GPL v2": https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/plus/

I'm using a pseudonym because the developer behind this app also made WhatsApp Plus and I don't want my name near him. That's the whole reason the account was new. It's one person, and I'll answer questions here.

What I'm asking:

  1. Which community guideline did the topic or the account break? The deletion email cites none.
  2. Was the deletion reviewed by anyone other than the staff member who did it?
  3. Does the forum want GPL compliance reports about Android apps, or not? If it does, what's the accepted way to file one from a fresh account?
  4. Whatever the reason, the effect is that F-Droid's forum removed a sourced report about a GPL violation, and a board member then went to another project to ask for the same. I'd like to understand how that fits F-Droid's purpose.

If there's a line in the report you consider wrong, quote it and I'll correct it wherever it's posted.