I've been blocked from asking questions here, but there seems to be no legitimate reason why. (I realize 'legitimate' is subjective here, but that's the way I see it.)
I've posted six questions in the past eight years, with one of them downvoted and closed as off-topic five years ago. I've reviewed the other five just now for quality against these guidelines:
All questions are expected to be useful to future visitors, so put effort into writing with proper grammar and spelling, formatting your post so it can be read easily, and providing as much detail as possible about your problem and what you have already tried.
I've also verified that the five are indeed on-topic:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
None has received a down-vote or a close-vote, nor any negative feedback. In fact, people were very helpful and accommodating.
I do seem to remember somewhat recently deleting a post that had received a close vote, but I'm unable to find anything about that in order to confirm. Apparently those records are hidden from me.
In any case, I'm surprised and dismayed that a single five-year-old closed question along with a close vote, especially on a post that I deleted and is no longer visible to the community, should be allowed to outweigh my other good history. In fact, the one closed question even received a quite satisfactory answer.
As far as getting reinstated, I'm at a loss as to how any of the open posts can be improved. They're all very detailed, they all drew significant engagement from the community, and they're all on-topic. What more can be done?
If the five-year-old single closed post and the single close vote on the now-deleted post are the culprits here—and I argue again that that's overly harsh if so—requiring the situation to be 'fixed' is asking for the impossible.
What can I do about this?
