My first and probably last post to Skeptics SE was a fairly intense affair [0]. I posted an answer that got quite a few votes but then got deleted. As you say

My first and probably last post to Skeptics SE was a fairly intense affair [0]. I posted an answer that got quite a few votes but then got deleted. As you say - then there doesn't seem to be any clear guidance about what you can do after it's deleted/closed. By luck I came across a friendly moderator in the chat that gave me hope of getting it re-instated. I wrote a Meta post how to get a post re-instated [1] which got some positive feedback from the moderators. [0]: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/39887/37853 https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/39887/37853 [1]: https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4090/so-your-answer-was-deleted-dont-panic https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4090/so-yo...