I recently saw this question Why didn't Lisa Simpson become an atheist? which, to my mind, seemed to be asking for opinions and I voted to close as such.

I understand that others might disagree as to my opinion and that is what the review queue is for.

However, the close votes (and mine was not the only one) seem to have disappeared when I checked back.

Can someone please explain what happened here?

As an aside, and possibly related, I did flag a somewhat contentious comment and this has now been removed...did this influence anything?