We've got the ability to put a post under probation (where it's blocked from everyone's view except the posters) or to just put it on "Training Wheels" (it might be called "almost-a-post" now, or something else). Basically, the Training Wheels keeps the post visible to everyone, opens the edit button for the writer of the post and allows them to edit away minor issues. Minor issues could be a non-working link, or a change of format in a
book review, to change a font color to something visible, or to remove/change some words that some people might find offensive and start a flame war about. We find it's easier to nip a flame war in the bud, so to speak, and sometimes "snark" can start a flame war. Flame wars are a MESS to moderate. If we can keep them from happening, we're really happy!
Starting a thread--like you did--in tinkering, is really the best way to communicate with whoever put your post on training wheels/probation. You could, I guess, "report" your own post and ask a question there. We'll all see that "report" and you might get a PM back from "Staff" and that "Staff" will likely be the person who put your post on edit....but it's a messy way of going about it. Tinkering is Paul's preferred way of dealing with moderation questions.