Probably because of your reputation level..... Click on you user cp and you can see the posts that you recieved negative rep points for and the comments people left...shoot me a PM if you have anymore questions.
Rusty...if you are referring to PMing me...you sent me one at 7:45, another at 8:07....I'm sorry if by 8:23 you didn't get a response but I do have a husband, children, a life, a collection of snakes and a breeding colony of rats to tend daily. You should have a PM waiting for you now from me. Another will be sent shortly explaining things in more detail as promised.
That's the thing with communities and the rep system - it's nothing done to you by staff - just the folks who spend a lot of time here. It might have taken much less of a toll to have apologized earlier. Now it's demoted you to "zero rep" and your posts have to be "filtered" and approved before posting.