"A new day dawns and the previously "deleted posts" have returned. ???????"
Maybe your computer needed to be refreshed, if it was gone and now it's back.
Now, I did take out the trash...but unless your post was in a reply to that spam, then I didn't delete yours. If your post was attached to the spam, then yeah, it probably got taken out with the trash.
In the future take note: if you guys reply to any spam, it will be deleted with the spam. It's tough to sort through the garbage and only pick out the spam on my phone.