What does "ref post removed" mean?

[Teddy Lop]

"Hi,

Your reply to the topic 'Suicidal people being prosecuted' has been removed for the following reason:

Ref post removed.

Regards,
PistonHeads"

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious but I have no idea what this reason means?

[greygoose]

Perhaps the post you referred to has been deleted?

[Teddy Lop]

Nope still up, with my fairly innocuous reply removed and also that of some troll (who I wasn't engaging)

in fact its still in "my stuff"

[Big Al.]

greygoose said:

Perhaps the post you referred to has been deleted?

That's sums it up nicely, when a posts gets removed for what ever reason, we remove any threads quoting it as the post has no reference/context if we only deleted the quote within the post.

Also in your case you didn't quote the post, but the post you reference had been removed.

If that makes sense.