Yeah, people will probably yell at your for spamming your site with your first post but most members-to-be laugh it off, roll their eyes, and trudge on. I can't imagine what would have got your first post deleted, this forum is usually better than that. I can see a hostile reply being deleted but the whole thread? Welcome anyway.
Oh, and you can tell us about your blog as much as you want, there's no rule saying otherwise (although members will balk... for months). We generally don't have nazi-mods that going around doing things like deleting spam, take a look at some of the new member threads and you'll see that.
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