Hi,
If you would like to appeal the image being deleted, please
come to -help in IRC and you can talk with staff about the image.
Also, that’s how notifications work - following the link in the notification causes it to be deleted, yes. If that wasn’t how it worked, you would have to delete each notification. The notifications aren’t meant to be a history of events - they’re just notifications of things that have happened, and they are removed as soon as you look at the thing the notification is about.
Also, also - please use the
Site & Policy forum for these kinds of questions. This forum
is not a support forum.